# Claude Opus 4.6 vs Minimax M2 5

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Minimax M2 5 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 4.6: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Minimax M2 5: $0.44 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6: closed weights.

Minimax M2 5: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Minimax M2 5 in General LLM at #4 against #164.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Minimax M2 5 in Reasoning at #2 against #155.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Minimax M2 5 in Coding › Web dev at #37 against #85.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Minimax M2 5 in Long context at #2 against #152.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Minimax M2 5 in Factuality at #3 against #149.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 is near state of the art, rank #2 in Reasoning (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Minimax M2 5 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Feb 19, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).