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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)
Vendorgoogleminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score62.477.2
Input Price$0.30/M$0.15/M
Output Price$2.50/M$0.60/M
Context Window1,048,576524,288
Max Output65,536-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index60.273.3
ai_index_agentic44.358.3
ai_index_coding81.496.6

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)
SQL Generation 161 167
Code Review 156 162
Code Completion 132 133
Code Refactoring 156 160
Bug Fixing 166 173
Unit Test Generation 146 151
Code Documentation 139 142
Regex Writing 131 134
CI/CD Pipelines 137 141
Frontend Component Design 139 143
Data Analysis 156 164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 149 153
ETL Scripting 146 151
JSON Extraction 145 148
Bulk Data Labeling 133 135
OCR / Document Parsing 143 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 143 145
Long-Document Summarization 153 157
Short-Form Summarization 129 131
Blog Post Writing 134 138

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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