Model comparison
Gemini 3 Pro vs MiniMax-M3
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.
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MiniMaxSummary
- They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 30.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 76.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 45.8% for MiniMax-M3.
- MiniMax-M3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | |
| Noometry Index | 54.8 | 43.8 |
| Released | 2025-11-18 | 2026-06-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 512K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 67 | 41 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1469 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | 640.02 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | — | 14.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 47.1% |
| GSO | 18.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | 2,158 |
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | — |
| APEX-Agents | — | 37.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| 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% | — |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | 45.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | 65.1% |
| CritPt | 6.9% | 3.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | 14% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1480 | 1447 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.92 | 146.95 |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | 61.4 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 8% |
| DTBench | — | 78.9% |
| LMCA | — | 33.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 55% |
Math Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | 71.1% |
| ProofBench | 20% | 18% |
| LMArena Math | 1476 | 1429 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | — |
| 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-M3: 58.4 (#35)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | 90.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | 1461 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | 1253 |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | 1435 |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1523 | 1463 |
| LMArena French | 1492 | 1447 |
| LMArena German | 1515 | 1426 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1510 | 1381 |
| LMArena Korean | 1448 | 1372 |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | 1432 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | 1433 |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1471 | 1445 |
| CL-bench | 15.8% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax-M3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1433 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | 1404 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | 1442 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | — |
| WildBench | 85.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1150 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than MiniMax-M3?
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Pro or MiniMax-M3 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-M3 share?
31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.