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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendorgoogleminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score83.977.2
Input Price$0.75/M$0.30/M
Output Price$3.75/M$1.20/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output65,536512,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index82.673.3
ai_index_agentic63.958.3
ai_index_coding100.096.6

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 169 167
Code Review 165 162
Code Completion 132 133
Code Refactoring 162 160
Bug Fixing 177 173
Unit Test Generation 153 151
Code Documentation 142 142
Regex Writing 135 134
CI/CD Pipelines 143 141
Frontend Component Design 145 143
Data Analysis 167 164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 153
ETL Scripting 153 151
JSON Extraction 148 147
Bulk Data Labeling 134 135
OCR / Document Parsing 146 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 145
Long-Document Summarization 158 156
Short-Form Summarization 131 131
Blog Post Writing 139 138

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

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