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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-23.

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendorgoogleminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-78.0
Input Price$1.50/M$0.30/M
Output Price$7.50/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_index-73.3
ai_index_agentic-58.3
ai_index_coding-96.6

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 133 167
Code Review 132 162
Code Completion 118 133
Code Refactoring 136 160
Bug Fixing 136 173
Unit Test Generation 124 151
Code Documentation 130 142
Regex Writing 118 134
CI/CD Pipelines 120 141
Frontend Component Design 122 143
Data Analysis 124 164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 153
ETL Scripting 128 151
JSON Extraction 122 147
Bulk Data Labeling 119 135
OCR / Document Parsing 131 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 145
Long-Document Summarization 137 156
Short-Form Summarization 114 131
Blog Post Writing 121 138

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

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