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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-16.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Vendorminimaxgoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score78.0-
Input Price$0.30/M$0.25/M
Output Price$1.20/M$1.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output512,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index73.3-
ai_index_agentic58.3-
ai_index_coding96.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
SQL Generation 167 133
Code Review 162 132
Code Completion 133 131
Code Refactoring 160 136
Bug Fixing 173 136
Unit Test Generation 151 124
Code Documentation 142 131
Regex Writing 134 119
CI/CD Pipelines 141 120
Frontend Component Design 143 122
Data Analysis 164 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 133
ETL Scripting 151 128
JSON Extraction 147 131
Bulk Data Labeling 135 129
OCR / Document Parsing 145 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 145 131
Long-Document Summarization 156 137
Short-Form Summarization 131 123
Blog Post Writing 138 121

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

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