Model comparison
Gemini 3 Pro vs MiniMax-M2.7
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
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MiniMaxSummary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M2.7 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 19.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 24.7% for MiniMax-M2.7.
- MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | |
| Noometry Index | 54.8 | 37.7 |
| Released | 2025-11-18 | 2026-03-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 67 | 30 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | 1398 |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | 37% |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1454 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | 599.25 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 47% |
| GSO | 18.6% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | 45.1% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | — |
| GDPval | 40.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 80.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 18% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 75.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.3% | — |
| BALROG | 58.1% | — |
| ExploitBench | — | 13.3% |
| GBAEval | — | 0% |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | 24.7% |
| CritPt | 6.9% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1480 | 1422 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.92 | 145.85 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 39.3% |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | — |
Math Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 20% | 3% |
| LMArena Math | 1476 | 1420 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 55.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 37.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | 1444 |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), MiniMax-M2.7: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | — |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | 1382 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1523 | 1441 |
| LMArena French | 1492 | 1421 |
| LMArena German | 1515 | 1398 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1510 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1448 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | 1383 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | 1403 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | 1405 |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1471 | 1419 |
| CL-bench | 15.8% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1405 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | 1354 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | 1412 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | — |
| WildBench | 85.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than MiniMax-M2.7?
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Pro or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?
Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and MiniMax-M2.7 share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.