Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) vs MiniMax-M3
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) by Anthropic or MiniMax-M3 by MiniMax? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low)
MiniMax-M3 vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low): 1.0% less intelligence, 1468.0% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 125.1% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) | MiniMax-M3 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 29.5 | 29.2 | −1.0% MiniMax-M3 is 1.0% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $34.31 | $537.98 | +1468.0% MiniMax-M3 is 16× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 11.13s | 25.05s | +125.1% MiniMax-M3 is 125.1% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.30 / $1.20 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image, Video |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
- MiniMax-M3 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
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