Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs MiniMax-M2.5
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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MiniMaxSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 48.1 to 37.9.
- MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2026-02-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1381 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1387 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1372 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 63.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.68 |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1378 |
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1379 |
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), MiniMax-M2.5: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |
Multilingual MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 1393 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1362 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | 1171 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 1358 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | 1354 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1353 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |
| IFEval | 82.4% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1366 |
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 1364 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
| WildBench | 79% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than MiniMax-M2.5?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and MiniMax-M2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?
MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and MiniMax-M2.5 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.