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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MiniMax-01

Side-by-side API pricing and Artificial Analysis performance for Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and MiniMax-01 (MiniMax). Green cells mark the better value in each row.

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic

MiniMax-01

MiniMax

Pricing
Input $/1M$1.00$0.20
Output $/1M$5.00$1.10
Blended $/1M (3:1)$2.00$0.425
RAG example (30K in / 2K out)$0.04$0.0082
Quality & speed
Intelligence Index29.6
Coding Index43.9
Agentic Index16.4
Output speed (tok/s)
Time to first token
Specs
Context window200K1M
Input modalitiestext, image, filetext, image

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 has the lower blended API price at $0.425 per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output mix), versus $2.00 for the other model. Prices are live from OpenRouter and refresh about hourly.

Which is better for RAG workloads?

For a typical RAG request (30K input / 2K output tokens), MiniMax-01 costs about $0.0082 per request versus $0.04. Also compare context windows: Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 200K and MiniMax-01 offers 1M.

Which scores higher on Artificial Analysis benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (29.6 vs —). Check coding and agentic indices on this page for workload-specific tradeoffs.