# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs MiniMax-M2.5

> MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-minimax-m2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax-M2.5 leads 47.9 to 33.9.
- MiniMax-M2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 240 | 181 |
| Context | — | 205K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 47.9 (#53)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | 1380 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1386 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.3% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 618.17 |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 30.2 (#70)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 42.7% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -23.16 |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 17.6 (#281)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1372 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | 146.68 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 63.7% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 25.8 (#242)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1378 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| ProofBench | — | 4% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 38.6 (#132)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1378 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- MiniMax-M2.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 47.3 (#147)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1338 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1392 |
| LMArena French | 1257 | 1363 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1361 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1169 |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | 1232 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1359 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 71.7 (#143)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1353 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 37.4 (#211)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1367 |
| CL-bench | — | 11.4% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 6.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- MiniMax-M2.5: 54.1 (#149)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | MiniMax-M2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1359 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1364 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1361 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than MiniMax-M2.5?

MiniMax-M2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.9 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.