Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs MiniMax-M3
MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
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MiniMaxSummary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M3 in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 32.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 64.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 90.9% for MiniMax-M3.
- MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 43.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2026-06-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 512K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 41 |
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Category by category
Coding MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1469 |
| FrontierCode | — | 14.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| SciCode | — | 47.1% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 640.02 |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 37.7% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 2,158 |
Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | 45.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1447 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 78.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 146.95 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 65.1% |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 14% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 33.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 55% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.4 |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1429 |
| ProofBench | — | 18% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 90.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1461 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | 1253 |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1435 |
Multilingual MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1463 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1447 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1426 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1381 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1372 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1432 |
Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1433 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1445 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1433 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1404 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1442 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1150 |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than MiniMax-M3?
MiniMax-M3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?
MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and MiniMax-M3 share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.