AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a model from Anthropic, released on September 28, 2026, which Anthropic describes as its best combination of speed and intelligence. It takes text and image input, returns text, and supports adaptive thinking; Anthropic names it the replacement for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Model B — MiniMax
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a native multimodal mixture-of-experts model from MiniMax, generally available from October 19, 2026, aimed at agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. It takes text, image and video input, returns text, and has a context window of up to 1M tokens.
| Property | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Sep 28, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Developer | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | proprietary | open-weight |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | — | ~428B total, ~23B activated (MoE) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $2.00 | $0.15 |
| Output $/M tokens | $10.00 | $0.60 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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