Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs MiniMax M2

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads MiniMax M2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 22.2 to 18.6, and MiniMax M2 costs 2.5x less per output token ($1.02 vs $2.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 31 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Replace MiniMax M2

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle

Coding: 49.0
Overall: 49.8
Output $/M: $2.50

MiniMax M2MiniMax

Coding: No data
Overall: No data
Output $/M: $1.02

vs boards won of 31 shared

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or MiniMax M2: which to pick

Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a coding score, 49.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; MiniMax M2 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick MiniMax M2 for output tokens 2.5x cheaper ($1.02 vs $2.50 per million).

Model AGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle49.0/1003 independent benchmarks$0.41 per solved task Model BMiniMax M2MiniMaxNot benchmarked1 independent benchmark$0.702 per solved task

315419

Shared results: 31
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite only: 54
MiniMax M2 only: 19
Like-for-like categories: 6 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads, 22.2 against 18.6.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a AA Agentic Index result, 14.3.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a GPQA Diamond result, 83.8%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a MMLU Pro result, 85.8%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only MiniMax M2 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1143.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens against 205K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiniMax M2
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite $0.0015, MiniMax M2 $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite $0.41, MiniMax M2 $0.702.
Published attempt cost and pass rate

At a glance

Coding index: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 49.0 from 3 benchmarks, MiniMax M2 not benchmarked.
Widest category: General, 17.5 points apart on average over 16 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap: LMArena Text: creative writing: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 1421 against MiniMax M2 1286, 22.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite $2.50 against MiniMax M2 $1.02 per million output tokens, 2.5x apart.
Context window: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens, MiniMax M2 205K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
Category	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Bars	MiniMax M2	Ties
Coding	3		0
Intelligence	1		0
Reasoning	5		0
Math	2		0
Knowledge	4		0
General	16		0
All shared boards	31		0

CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30

Coding benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
SWE-bench Verified	Not measured	61.0%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
LMArena WebDev	1435	1297	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
AA Coding Index	49.3	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)	79.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)	75.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)	37.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Code migration (Vals AI)	6.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)	0.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)	50.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)	59.1%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)	Not measured	82.6%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
SciCode	41.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)	Not measured	25.8%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Terminal-Bench	Not measured	30.0%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
WeirdML	39.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
ALE-Bench	765.3	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text: coding	1453	1371	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: software and IT	1451	1373	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena WebDev: React	1408	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML	Not measured	1306	Only MiniMax M2 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image	1448	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
SciCode	6.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here

IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10

Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
AA Intelligence Index	22.2	18.6	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Epoch Capabilities Index	144.9	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured

Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared

Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
AA Agentic Index	14.3	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)	47.4%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)	7.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)	13.9%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)	43.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
τ²-Bench Telecom	Not measured	86.8%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
APEX-Agents	29.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Vending-Bench 2	Not measured	$161	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here

ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50

Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
GPQA Diamond	83.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)	83.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)	83.8%	77.7%	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)	18.8%	13.7%	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)	83.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
ARC-AGI	53.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
ARC-AGI-2	10.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Chess puzzles	21.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Mystery game puzzles	19.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts	1441	1357	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: expert	1434	1338	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English	1440	1376	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision: diagrams	1284	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Vision: homework	1291	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark	Not measured	57.8%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here

MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20

Math benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
AA Math Index	Not measured	78.3	Only MiniMax M2 measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)	Not measured	78.3%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
OTIS Mock AIME	71.1%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3	26.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
FrontierMath, tier 4	0.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
ProofBench	13.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text: math	1434	1351	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: mathematical work	1433	1368	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here

KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40

Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
MMLU Pro	85.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)	84.1%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)	60.7%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)	72.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)	68.7%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
MedCode (Vals AI)	43.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)	Not measured	82.0%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
LMArena Text: science	1451	1348	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare	1438	1367	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: legal and government	1431	1349	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: business and finance	1423	1336	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
FACTS Benchmark Suite	53.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here

Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared

Web design benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
Design Arena: websites	Not measured	1143	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Design Arena: UI components	Not measured	1137	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Design Arena: game dev	Not measured	1118	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Design Arena: data viz	Not measured	1140	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Design Arena: 3D	Not measured	1098	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Design Arena: all code categories	Not measured	1135	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Design Arena: SVG	Not measured	1100	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here

GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index160

General benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)	51.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
SAGE (Vals AI)	47.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)	70.9%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
IFBench	Not measured	72.3%	Only MiniMax M2 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)	76.0%	64.3%	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
DTBench	83.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMCA	37.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text	1435	1340	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: instruction following	1419	1329	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: creative writing	1421	1286	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision	1269	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text: English	1438	1364	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: non-English	1427	1313	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: Chinese	1468	1366	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: German	1454	1357	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: Japanese	1426	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text: Korean	1407	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Text: French	1451	1336	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: Spanish	1441	1326	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: Russian	1443	1330	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: Polish	1437	1312	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: multi-turn	1445	1361	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: longer queries	1435	1331	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: writing and language	1428	1295	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text: entertainment and media	1414	1298	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision: English	1269	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese	1311	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Vision: reading text	1280	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Vision: humor	1287	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing	1260	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here

Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared

Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2	Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite$0.0015Fits in one request

MiniMax M2$0.0008Fits in one request

MiniMax M2 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite$0.022Fits in one request

MiniMax M2$0.016Fits in one request

MiniMax M2 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite$0.085Fits in one request

MiniMax M2$0.061Exceeds the context window

MiniMax M2 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and MiniMax M2
Specification	Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	MiniMax M2
Maker	Google	MiniMax
Weights	No public weights listed	Open weights
Released	July 21, 2026	October 23, 2025
Context window	1.05M	205K
Input $/Mtok	$0.30	$0.255
Output $/Mtok	$2.50	$1.02
Coding index	49.0	Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it	3	1
Cost per solved task	$0.41	$0.702
Source	OpenRouter listing	OpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than MiniMax M2 for coding?

Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a coding score, 49.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; MiniMax M2 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick MiniMax M2 for output tokens 2.5x cheaper ($1.02 vs $2.50 per million).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or MiniMax M2?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2 costs $0.255 and $1.02. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.41 and MiniMax M2 $0.702.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or MiniMax M2?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs MiniMax M2 comparison based on?

31 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M2's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or MiniMax M2: which to pick

Which one for your work

Coding

Intelligence

Agentic work

Reasoning

Knowledge

Web design

Long documents

Everyday cost

Cost per solved task

At a glance

Benchmark by benchmark

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Agent loop

Specification differences

Questions

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