Model comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs MiniMax-M3

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 3 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 45.7.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 73.2% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and 90.9% for MiniMax-M3.
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0675 / $0.23 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M3.
MiniMax-M3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and MiniMax-M3 specifications
	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
Provider	Google	MiniMax
Noometry Index	43.5	43.8
Released	2026-04-02	2026-06-01
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	1M
Max output	33K	512K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.0675	$0.30
Output $ / M tokens	$0.23	$1.20
Results tracked	28	41

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev	1359	1482
SciCode	40%	47.1%
LMArena Coding	1447	1469
ALE-Bench	927.17	640.02
FrontierCode	—	14.7%
WeirdML	35.2%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents	—	37.7%
OSWorld 2.0	—	4.6%
GBAEval	—	0.9%
Vending-Bench 2	—	2,158

Reasoning MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
CritPt	0%	3.7%
Chess Puzzles	6%	14%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1439	1447
DTBench	74.9%	78.9%
LMCA	29.7%	33.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.85	146.95
SimpleBench	—	45.8%
NYT Connections (extended)	—	65.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	8%
Surface Evolver Bench	—	55%
ForecastBench	—	61.4

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	82.2%	71.1%
LMArena Math	1470	1429
ProofBench	—	18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
GPQA Diamond	73.2%	90.9%
LMArena Expert	1447	1461
Vectara Hallucination Rate	5.2%	—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision	1260	1253
LMArena Document	—	1435

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English	1421	1420
LMArena Chinese	1495	1463
LMArena French	1460	1447
LMArena Russian	1434	1428
LMArena Spanish	1417	1432
LMArena German	—	1426
LMArena Japanese	—	1381
LMArena Korean	—	1372

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following	1420	1433

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query	1428	1445

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Text	1434	1433
LMArena Creative Writing	1402	1404
LMArena Multi-Turn	1441	1442
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1305	—
EQ-Bench 4	—	1150

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than MiniMax-M3?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and MiniMax-M3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or MiniMax-M3?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0675 per million input tokens and $0.23 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M3 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax-M3 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and MiniMax-M3 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.