We Tested MiniMax M2.7 Against Claude Opus 4.6 (7 minute read)

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MiniMax M2.7 offers 90% of the quality of Claude Opus 4.6 at just 7% of the cost, excelling in bug detection but less thorough in fixes. It performs better in floating-point calculations and matches Claude in vulnerability detection, though Claude provides comprehensive solutions. With rates of $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens versus Claude's $5/$25, MiniMax is a cost-effective tool that bridges the gap between open-weight and frontier models.