Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5

MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.0 to 26.9.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 40.5% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 55.2% for MiniMax-M2.5.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.5.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 205K.
MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and MiniMax-M2.5 specifications
	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
Provider	Google	MiniMax
Noometry Index	37.0	38.3
Released	2025-06-17	2026-02-12
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	1.05M	205K
Max output	66K	131K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.10	$0.30
Output $ / M tokens	$0.40	$1.20
Results tracked	33	33

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Coding	1373	1381
ALE-Bench	325.9	618.17
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	—	75.8%
LMArena WebDev	—	1387
SWE-bench Multilingual	—	68.3%
WeirdML	35.2%	—

Agentic & Tool Use MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench	—	42.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	36.9%	—
Vending-Bench 2	—	-23.16

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.5%	55.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1377	1372
Epoch Capabilities Index	133.94	146.68
ARC-AGI-2	—	4.9%
NYT Connections (extended)	—	16.8%
ARC-AGI-1	—	63.7%
DTBench	62.8%	—
LMCA	18.1%	—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math	1373	1378
ProofBench	—	4%
Omni-MATH	48%	—

Knowledge MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
Vectara Hallucination Rate	3.3%	9.1%
LMArena Expert	1373	1379
MMLU-Pro	53.7%	—
GPQA (HELM)	30.9%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), MiniMax-M2.5: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Vision	1198	—
VPCT	30%	—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English	1369	1338
LMArena Chinese	1404	1393
LMArena French	1388	1362
LMArena German	1389	1362
LMArena Japanese	1359	1171
LMArena Korean	1360	1232
LMArena Russian	1373	1358
LMArena Spanish	1396	1354

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1367	1353
IFEval	81%	—

Long Context MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query	1373	1366
Fiction.LiveBench	47.2%	—
CL-bench	—	11.4%
CL-bench Life	—	6.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	MiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text	1379	1359
LMArena Creative Writing	1367	1331
LMArena Multi-Turn	1366	1364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1361
WildBench	81.8%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than MiniMax-M2.5?

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or MiniMax-M2.5?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.5 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.