Gemini 3 Flash vs MiniMax M2.7

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Gemini 3 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Flash's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 57.5 against 57. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 44% to 56.2%. MiniMax M2.7 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $3.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens for MiniMax M2.7. That is roughly 2.5x on output cost alone. Gemini 3 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for MiniMax M2.7.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

57.5

MiniMax M2.7

57

56%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
66%
BrowseComp
Coming soon
53%
OSWorld-Verified
Coming soon
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Toolathlon
46.3%
Coming soon
MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
Coming soon
MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

MiniMax M2.7

Gemini 3 Flash

44

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

62%
HumanEval
Coming soon
44%
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
44%
SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
Coming soon
SWE Multilingual
76.5%
Coming soon
Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
Coming soon
VIBE-Pro
55.6%
Coming soon
NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

80%
MMMU-Pro
Coming soon
79%
OfficeQA Pro
Coming soon
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GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

Coming soon

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65%
MuSR
Coming soon
84%
BBH
Coming soon
75%
LongBench v2
Coming soon
76%
MRCRv2
Coming soon

Knowledge

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

70%
MMLU
Coming soon
69%
GPQA
Coming soon
67%
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
72%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
6%
HLE
Coming soon
65%
FrontierScience
Coming soon
67%
SimpleQA
Coming soon
Coming soon
Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

85%
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

85%
MGSM
Coming soon
78%
MMLU-ProX
Coming soon

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

70%
AIME 2023
Coming soon
72%
AIME 2024
Coming soon
71%
AIME 2025
Coming soon
66%
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
68%
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
67%
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
69%
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
80%
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Flash or MiniMax M2.7?

Gemini 3 Flash is ahead overall, 62 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 44% and 56.2%.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Flash or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 44. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3 Flash or MiniMax M2.7?

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 versus 57. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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