Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs MiniMax-M3

MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 35.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 78.9% for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index37.843.8
Released2025-02-052026-06-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—512K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3241

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Coding13221469
FrontierCode—14.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
SciCode—47.1%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—640.02

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents—37.7%
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GBAEval—0.9%
Vending-Bench 2—2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Hard Prompts13241447
DTBench52.5%78.9%
ForecastBench57.161.4
SimpleBench—45.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—65.1%
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles—14%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—33.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—55%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.95
LiveBench54.3%—

Math MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Math13091429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—71.1%
ProofBench—18%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Expert13051461
GPQA Diamond—90.9%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision11001253
LMArena Document—1435

Multilingual MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English13231420
LMArena Chinese13391463
LMArena French13471447
LMArena German13061426
LMArena Japanese13011381
LMArena Korean13251372
LMArena Russian13281428
LMArena Spanish13131432

Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following13051433
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query13201445

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMiniMax-M3
LMArena Text13301433
LMArena Creative Writing13191404
LMArena Multi-Turn13071442
WildBench79%—
EQ-Bench 4—1150
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and MiniMax-M3 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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