# Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.6 Flash and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-6-flash-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.6 Flash 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 3.6 Flash leads overall 70.11 to 58.99.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 68.6 for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 50.2 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 73.8% and 48.7%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.6 Flash | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 70.11 | 58.99 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $7.50 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 50.7 (Supported · #60/151)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 43.1 (Estimated · #107/151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OSWorld-Verified | 83% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 73.8% | 48.7% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 57% | Coming soon |
| 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 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 58.9 (Supported · #30/183)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 50.5 (Estimated · #70/183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| deepSwe | 49% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 88.1% | 79.9% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | 73.8% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 56.2% | 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 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 82.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 77.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 75.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Gemini 3.6 Flash
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 68.6 (Supported · #18/181)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 50.2 (Supported · #88/181)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | 86.6% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.3% | 80.4% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 92.7 (#10/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.6 Flash or MiniMax M2.7?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.6 Flash and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 68.6 for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 50.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.6 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.6 Flash currently has 8 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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