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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs MiniMax-M3

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M3 costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.7 to 30.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 55% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 14% for MiniMax-M3.
  • MiniMax-M3 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index56.743.8
Released2026-02-192026-06-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K512K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$12$1.20
Results tracked7141

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev14471482
SciCode58.9%47.1%
LMArena Coding14841469
ALE-Bench1,161640.02
SWE-bench Verified75.6%—
DeepSWE11.7%—
FrontierCode—14.7%
GSO22.6%—
WeirdML72.1%—
MirrorCode8.9%—
AlgoTune2.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34), MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents35.3%37.7%
GBAEval0.8%0.9%
Vending-Bench 23,7742,158
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
τ²-bench Banking26%—
DeepResearch Bench47.8%—
PostTrainBench22%—
BALROG57%—
ExploitBench26.1%—
GDP.pdf17%—
LMArena Search1211—
METR Time Horizons77%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
SimpleBench79.6%45.8%
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%65.1%
CritPt17.7%3.7%
Chess Puzzles55%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851447
Mystery Game Puzzles34%8%
DTBench97.1%78.9%
LMCA53.8%33.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.77146.95
ForecastBench5961.4
ARC-AGI-277.1%—
ARC-AGI-198%—
EnigmaEval36.8%—
Thematic Generalization79.4%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench—55%

Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%71.1%
ProofBench26%18%
LMArena Math14851429
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)59.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions86.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)36.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)16.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
GPQA Diamond94.4%90.9%
LMArena Expert14851461
Humanity's Last Exam46.4%—
SimpleQA Verified73.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.4%—

Multimodal MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision12961253
LMArena Document14441435
Blueprint-Bench 226.5%—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English14771420
LMArena Chinese15291463
LMArena French14871447
LMArena German14911426
LMArena Japanese14931381
LMArena Korean14551372
LMArena Russian14981428
LMArena Spanish14791432

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14661433

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query14831445
CL-bench20.8%—
CL-bench Life16.9%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14811433
LMArena Creative Writing14821404
EQ-Bench 411421150
LMArena Multi-Turn14881442
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than MiniMax-M3?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M3 costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or MiniMax-M3?

MiniMax-M3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview lists at $2 and $12.

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.5 vs 41.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and MiniMax-M3 share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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