# Gemini 3.8 Flash vs MiniMax-01

> Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#13); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-minimax-01
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 64.7 to 21.7.
- MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
- MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 59.5 | 32.8 |
| Rank | 13 | — |
| Context | 1.05M | 1M |
| Input $/M | $0.75 | $0.20 |
| Output $/M | $3.75 | $1.10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 56.4 (#17)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 73.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 41.2% | — |
| CursorBench | 39.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1581 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 19.6% | — |
| SciCode | 56.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1512 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,270 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.3 (#22)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 64.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 23.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,094 | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 64.7 (#13)
- MiniMax-01: 21.7

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 42.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 97.4% | — |
| CritPt | 18.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 61% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1506 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 47% | — |
| DTBench | 95.7% | — |
| LMCA | 52.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 76.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157.13 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.2 (#22)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 68.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 22% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 48% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1528 | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.9 (#2)
- MiniMax-01: 33.1

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.4% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 44.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 23.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1529 | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.9 (#33)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1312 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 31.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 57.9 (#5)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1486 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1547 | — |
| LMArena French | 1502 | — |
| LMArena German | 1470 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1505 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1479 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1492 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.2 (#11)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1489 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.2 (#23)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1506 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.1 (#16)
- MiniMax-01: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MiniMax-01 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1494 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1485 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1748 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1503 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than MiniMax-01?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#13); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or MiniMax-01?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.8 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.8 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and MiniMax-01 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-01 has 2.