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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs MiniMax-M3

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M3 costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 59.8 to 44.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 62.4% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 45.8% for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index45.043.8
Released2025-03-252026-06-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K512K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.20
Results tracked7841

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev12271482
SciCode42.8%47.1%
LMArena Coding14521469
ALE-Bench785.52640.02
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
FrontierCode—14.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
Vending-Bench 2573.642,158
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
APEX-Agents—37.7%
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
GBAEval—0.9%
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
SimpleBench62.4%45.8%
CritPt2%3.7%
Chess Puzzles20%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551447
DTBench82.4%78.9%
LMCA34.8%33.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32146.95
ForecastBench61.361.4
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—65.1%
ARC-AGI-141%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench—55%
LiveBench82.3%—

Math MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%71.1%
LMArena Math14501429
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench—18%
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
GPQA Diamond85.3%90.9%
LMArena Expert14521461
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision12631253
LMArena Document14211435
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English14511420
LMArena Chinese15071463
LMArena French14721447
LMArena German14871426
LMArena Japanese14611381
LMArena Korean14341372
LMArena Russian14611428
LMArena Spanish14731432

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14371433
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query14491445
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14581433
LMArena Creative Writing14541404
LMArena Multi-Turn14531442
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
EQ-Bench 4—1150
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than MiniMax-M3?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M3 costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.4 vs 41.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and MiniMax-M3 share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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