Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs MiniMax-M2.5

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.5 costs 2.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.1

Rank #181 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.1 to 17.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 4.9% for MiniMax-M2.5.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 205K.
  • MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index59.838.1
Released2026-08-132026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M205K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$1.20
Results tracked4433

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.9 (#53)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena WebDev15931386
LMArena Coding14991380
ALE-Bench904.3618.17
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), MiniMax-M2.5: 30.2 (#70)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.6 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
ARC-AGI-284.6%4.9%
NYT Connections (extended)94%16.8%
ARC-AGI-195.5%63.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14971372
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72146.68
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), MiniMax-M2.5: 25.8 (#242)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
ProofBench58%4%
LMArena Math15111378
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), MiniMax-M2.5: 38.6 (#132)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert15081378
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), MiniMax-M2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English14851338
LMArena Chinese15531392
LMArena French15121363
LMArena German14851361
LMArena Japanese15061169
LMArena Korean14861232
LMArena Russian15191359
LMArena Spanish15071354

Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.7 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following14861353

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.4 (#211)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query14931367
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), MiniMax-M2.5: 54.1 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text14871359
LMArena Creative Writing14901331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing17231361
LMArena Multi-Turn14951364

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than MiniMax-M2.5?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.5 costs 2.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash 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 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.7 versus 47.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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