# Gemini 3 Pro vs MiniMax M3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3 Pro and MiniMax M3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-pro-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Gemini 3 Pro leads overall 61.13 to 54.94.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 50.1 for Gemini 3 Pro and 82.9 for MiniMax M3.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is OmniDocBench 1.5 in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 88.5% and 91.6%.
- MiniMax M3 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Gemini 3 Pro also has the larger context window at 2M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 2M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 61.13 | 54.94 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $12.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 39.4 (Supported · #67/126)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gert Labs | 63.23% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 11.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 66.0% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 83.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 70.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 74.5% | Coming soon |
| BankerToolBench | Coming soon | 76.1% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 19.8% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 4.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: 43 (Estimated · #58/149)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 36.5 (Supported · #73/149)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vibe Code Bench | 14.30% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 66.0% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.1% | Coming soon |
| VIBE V2 | Coming soon | 50.1% | Coming soon |
| SVG-Bench | Coming soon | 63.7% | Coming soon |
| KernelBench Hard | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 48.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: 50.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 82.9 (#5/29)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: 80 (#18/54)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 61.5 (#43/54)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 87.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 81% | 78.1% | Gemini 3 Pro |
| RealWorldQA | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 88.5% | 91.6% | MiniMax M3 |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 88.4% | 85.4% | Gemini 3 Pro |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| We-Math | 86.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 85.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 73.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 60.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 97.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 84.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | 46.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 70.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 87.6% | 84.6% | Gemini 3 Pro |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 88.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 45.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: 60.6 (Estimated · #46/182)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 49.6 (Supported · #81/182)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: 86.1 (#43/146)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/146)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3 Pro or MiniMax M3?

Gemini 3 Pro is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3 Pro and MiniMax M3?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 50.1 for Gemini 3 Pro and 82.9 for MiniMax M3.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3 Pro cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3 Pro currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M3 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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