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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs MiniMax-M2.7

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.7 costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M2.7 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 19.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 83.1% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 24.7% for MiniMax-M2.7.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 205K.
  • MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
Noometry Index52.337.7
Released2025-12-172026-03-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M205K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$3$1.20
Results tracked5930

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena WebDev14391398
WeirdML61.6%37%
LMArena Coding14601454
ALE-Bench1,367599.25
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—47%
GSO9.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench64.3%45.1%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%24.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651422
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8145.85
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles40%—
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA43.1%—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
ProofBench15%3%
LMArena Math14731420
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%12.9%
LMArena Expert14621444
GPQA Diamond89.4%—
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), MiniMax-M2.7: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English14581382
LMArena Chinese15111441
LMArena French14771421
LMArena German14971398
LMArena Japanese14891262
LMArena Korean14431313
LMArena Russian14801383
LMArena Spanish14691403

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following14371405

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query14521419

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text14661405
LMArena Creative Writing14571354
LMArena Multi-Turn14711412

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than MiniMax-M2.7?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. MiniMax-M2.7 costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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