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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.5 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 39.2 to 16.0.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index29.938.3
Released2024-10-032026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Coding12181381
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1387
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
ALE-Bench—618.17

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts12091372
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
DTBench50%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.68

Math MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math12071378
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%—
ProofBench—4%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert11851379
GPQA Diamond33%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), MiniMax-M2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English12151338
LMArena Chinese12311393
LMArena French12341362
LMArena German12061362
LMArena Japanese11501171
LMArena Korean11401232
LMArena Russian12361358
LMArena Spanish12121354

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following11991353

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query12191366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text12261359
LMArena Creative Writing12181331
LMArena Multi-Turn11851364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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