Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs MiniMax-M2.5

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 40.7 to 26.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 67.2% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 55.2% for MiniMax-M2.5.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.50 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.1 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 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index40.838.3
Released2026-03-032026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M205K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$1.20
Results tracked3833

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena WebDev12561387
LMArena Coding14001381
ALE-Bench797.73618.17
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%16.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071372
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47146.68
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math14281378
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
ProofBench—4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%9.1%
LMArena Expert13981379
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), MiniMax-M2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English14111338
LMArena Chinese14611393
LMArena French14241362
LMArena German14291362
LMArena Japanese14131171
LMArena Korean13921232
LMArena Russian14201358
LMArena Spanish14211354

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following13771353

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query13941366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text14161359
LMArena Creative Writing14011331
LMArena Multi-Turn14171364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than MiniMax-M2.5?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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