# Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-lite-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads overall 60.5 to 58.99.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 60.8 for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 75.2 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro (Vals) in Knowledge, with scores of 85.8% and 80.4%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 60.5 | 58.99 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 10 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $2.50 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 43.4 (Estimated · #104/151)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 43.1 (Estimated · #107/151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 54% | 57% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 50.2% | 48.7% | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 40.40% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 43.6 (Supported · #121/183)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 50.5 (Estimated · #70/183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 54.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.2% | 56.2% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 79.0% | 79.9% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 75.0% | 73.8% | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 51.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | Coming soon | 52.7% | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 27.04% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 76.1 (#16/48)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 60.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 75.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 53 (Supported · #71/181)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 50.2 (Supported · #88/181)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 83.8% | 86.6% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 85.8% | 80.4% | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 92.7 (#10/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite or MiniMax M2.7?

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 60.8 for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 75.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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