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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax-01

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

MiniMax-01 MiniMax

32.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.9 to 21.7.
  • MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index54.132.8
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K900K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$1.10
Results tracked462

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), MiniMax-01: 21.7

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—42.5%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), MiniMax-01: 33.1

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Confabulations—23.9%
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), MiniMax-01: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-01
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than MiniMax-01?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and MiniMax-01 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.

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