Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs MiniMax-M2.1
MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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MiniMaxSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.1 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where MiniMax-M2.1 leads 38.3 to 22.1.
- MiniMax-M2.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 38.9 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-12-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), MiniMax-M2.1: 40.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1421 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1384 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 623.83 |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), MiniMax-M2.1: 27.9 (#98)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 36.6% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), MiniMax-M2.1: 16.6 (#302)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1411 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 11.2% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#138)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1397 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), MiniMax-M2.1: 38.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1431 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 11.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), MiniMax-M2.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), MiniMax-M2.1: 50.0 (#128)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1378 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1430 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1404 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1381 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1387 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1397 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), MiniMax-M2.1: 73.8 (#112)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1400 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), MiniMax-M2.1: 43.2 (#101)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1416 |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.1 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), MiniMax-M2.1: 58.3 (#120)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1392 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1361 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1396 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than MiniMax-M2.1?
MiniMax-M2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or MiniMax-M2.1 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and MiniMax-M2.1 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.1 has 22.