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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Google: Gemini Pro Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Google: Gemini Pro Latest
Vendorminimax~google
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score47.2-
Input Price$0.30/M$2.00/M
Output Price$1.20/M$12.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output512,00065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index48.2-

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Google: Gemini Pro Latest
SQL Generation 139 132
Code Review 141 132
Code Completion 132 117
Code Refactoring 143 136
Bug Fixing 145 136
Unit Test Generation 129 124
Code Documentation 136 129
Regex Writing 124 117
CI/CD Pipelines 125 120
Frontend Component Design 127 122
Data Analysis 131 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 132
ETL Scripting 134 128
JSON Extraction 131 121
Bulk Data Labeling 129 117
OCR / Document Parsing 133 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 131
Long-Document Summarization 145 136
Short-Form Summarization 126 113
Blog Post Writing 127 120

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

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