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Claude Opus 4.8 (69.2% Pro, $25/1M, AA Index #1) vs MiniMax M3 (59.0%, $1.20/1M, open-weight + video). Opus dominates 5 of 6 shared benchmarks by 8-13 points. But M3 is 21× cheaper, open-weight, and wins BrowseComp (-4.2). Full comparison with VP of VentureBeat research plus MiniMax/Minimax blog data.
GPT-5.5 (82.7% Terminal-Bench, 58.6% Pro, $30/1M) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash (83.6% MCP Atlas, 76.2% TB 2.1, $9/1M, 152 tok/s). GPT-5.5 dominates reasoning & long context. Flash dominates tool orchestration & speed. Official Google DeepMind model card data. 10-point verdict.