Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs MiniMax-M3

Gemma 4 31B 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 11, 2026. 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT

Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3

MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 5 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 37.9.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Surface Evolver Bench: 30.6% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 55% for MiniMax-M3.
Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 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 31B IT and MiniMax-M3 specifications
	Gemma 4 31B 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	$0.09	$0.30
Output $ / M tokens	$0.34	$1.20
Results tracked	35	41

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev	1366	1482
SciCode	43.4%	47.1%
LMArena Coding	1459	1469
ALE-Bench	925.5	640.02
FrontierCode	—	14.7%
WeirdML	52.3%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B 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 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
NYT Connections (extended)	70.6%	65.1%
CritPt	1.4%	3.7%
Chess Puzzles	5%	14%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1448	1447
DTBench	82.7%	78.9%
LMCA	39.3%	33.7%
Surface Evolver Bench	30.6%	55%
Epoch Capabilities Index	142.74	146.95
SimpleBench	—	45.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	63.5%	—
Thematic Generalization	53%	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	8%
ForecastBench	—	61.4

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	73.3%	71.1%
LMArena Math	1465	1429
ProofBench	—	18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
GPQA Diamond	75.8%	90.9%
LMArena Expert	1465	1461
SimpleQA Verified	10.4%	—
Vectara Hallucination Rate	7.4%	—

Multimodal Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision	1277	1253
LMArena Document	1425	1435

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English	1431	1420
LMArena Chinese	1476	1463
LMArena French	1435	1447
LMArena Russian	1460	1428
LMArena Spanish	1444	1432
LMArena German	—	1426
LMArena Japanese	—	1381
LMArena Korean	—	1372

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following	1433	1433

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query	1446	1445

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 31B IT	MiniMax-M3
LMArena Text	1443	1433
LMArena Creative Writing	1415	1404
EQ-Bench 4	1120	1150
LMArena Multi-Turn	1452	1442
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1368	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than MiniMax-M3?

Gemma 4 31B 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 31B IT or MiniMax-M3?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M3 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.3 vs 41.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and MiniMax-M3 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.