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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.7 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 37.7 to 16.0.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index29.937.7
Released2024-10-032026-03-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2130

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Coding12181454
LMArena WebDev—1398
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—37%
ALE-Bench—599.25

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench—45.1%
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Hard Prompts12091422
NYT Connections (extended)—24.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
DTBench50%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.85

Math MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Math12071420
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%—
ProofBench—3%

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Expert11851444
GPQA Diamond33%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), MiniMax-M2.7: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English12151382
LMArena Chinese12311441
LMArena French12341421
LMArena German12061398
LMArena Japanese11501262
LMArena Korean11401313
LMArena Russian12361383
LMArena Spanish12121403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following11991405

Long Context MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query12191419

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text12261405
LMArena Creative Writing12181354
LMArena Multi-Turn11851412

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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