Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic, while MiniMax M3.1 Flash comes from MiniMax. Both were released in October 2026.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Claude Haiku 5.5 leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam (no tools, text-only), where Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 45.9% against 43.4%; Terminal-Bench 4.0, where Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 39.2% against 38.1%. Averaged across everything we track, Claude Haiku 5.5 sits at 57.7% and MiniMax M3.1 Flash at 56.4%.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the cheaper API at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, about 50% below MiniMax M3.1 Flash at $0.15 and $0.60. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Claude Haiku 5.5 accepts text and images as input, while MiniMax M3.1 Flash accepts text, images, and video.
| Characteristic | Claude Haiku 5.5 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Release Date | October 7, 2026 | October 19, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 524K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.10 | $0.15 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.50 | $0.60 |
| Average Score | 57.7% | 56.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools, text-only) | 45.9% | 43.4% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 39.2% | 38.1% |
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Verdict
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads in 1 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Claude Haiku 5.5 — 0.6, MiniMax M3.1 Flash — 0.6.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is 1.3x cheaper: input $0.10/1M vs $0.15/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 10/7/2026 and 10/19/2026.
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