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Gemini 4 Argon vs MiniMax M3

Updated October 21, 2026. 72 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

Replace Gemini 4 Argon Replace MiniMax M3
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle
Coding
80.5
Overall
52.6
Output $/M
$10.00
71
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
57.8
Overall
29.2
Output $/M
$1.20
1
vs boards won of 72 shared

Decision reading

Pick Gemini 4 Argon for coding: it scores 80.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.8 for MiniMax M3.

Pick MiniMax M3 when output tokens cost 8.3x less, or when the benchmark that matters is Long context reasoning (AA-LCR), where it leads.

Model AGemini 4 ArgonGoogle80.5/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BMiniMax M3MiniMax57.8/1002 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved task
Shared results
72
Gemini 4 Argon only
20
MiniMax M3 only
44
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

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.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemini 4 Argon 80.5 from 2 benchmarks, MiniMax M3 57.8 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 38.3 points apart on average over 10 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LiveBench browser: Gemini 4 Argon 92.0% against MiniMax M3 8.0%, 84.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemini 4 Argon $10.00 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 8.3x apart.
Context window
Both take 1.05M tokens.

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
CategoryGemini 4 ArgonBarsMiniMax M3Ties
Coding160
Intelligence20
Agentic work100
Reasoning80
Math40
Knowledge60
Web design70
General181
All shared boards711
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index160
Coding benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
LiveBench coding89.7%70.9%Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena WebDev16781482Gemini 4 Argon
AA Coding IndexNot measured58.6Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured82.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured75.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)57.6%1.0%Gemini 4 Argon
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)91.9%47.6%Gemini 4 Argon
Code migration (Vals AI)68.2%19.9%Gemini 4 Argon
ProgramBench (Vals AI)2.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
IOI (Vals AI)100.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)57.7%53.6%Gemini 4 Argon
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)56.0%33.3%Gemini 4 Argon
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)21.2%9.2%Gemini 4 Argon
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only MiniMax M3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)77.9%65.0%Gemini 4 Argon
SciCode61.8%47.1%Gemini 4 Argon
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured42.4%Only MiniMax M3 measured
FrontierCode47.5%14.7%Gemini 4 Argon
FrontierSWE55.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
ALE-Bench2100.1640.0Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: coding15461470Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: software and IT15561466Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena WebDev: React16921478Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena WebDev: HTML16431455Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1470Only MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
AA Intelligence Index52.629.2Gemini 4 Argon
Epoch Capabilities Index166.4146.9Gemini 4 Argon
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured29.5Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1200Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1197Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1169Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1164Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1158Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1180Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1205Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets11511021Gemini 4 Argon
LiveBench research83.1%68.0%Gemini 4 Argon
LiveBench browser92.0%8.0%Gemini 4 Argon
LiveBench long agentic69.9%12.4%Gemini 4 Argon
SREBench (Vals AI)44.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)65.4%48.3%Gemini 4 Argon
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)44.6%20.6%Gemini 4 Argon
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)54.8%29.8%Gemini 4 Argon
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)27.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)75.2%47.8%Gemini 4 Argon
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)76.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)44.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Vals Science Index55.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)52.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
CUA-bench (Vals AI)4.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
Robo-bench (Vals AI)0.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured88.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
APEX-Agents82.4%37.7%Gemini 4 Argon
OSWorld 2.0Not measured4.6%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$13,718$2,158Gemini 4 Argon
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured92.7%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench reasoning95.1%74.5%Gemini 4 Argon
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)45.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured81.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured92.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)57.1%39.0%Gemini 4 Argon
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)96.4%90.9%Gemini 4 Argon
ARC-AGI98.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
ARC-AGI-291.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
SimpleBenchNot measured45.8%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Chess puzzles59.0%13.0%Gemini 4 Argon
Mystery game puzzles64.0%8.0%Gemini 4 Argon
EBR-bench64.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15461447Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: expert15501461Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15481455Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1266Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1268Only MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
OTIS Mock AIME100.0%71.1%Gemini 4 Argon
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 386.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
FrontierMath, tier 478.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
ProofBench99.0%18.0%Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: math15361429Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: mathematical work15571448Gemini 4 Argon
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
MMLU ProNot measured84.2%Only MiniMax M3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)88.3%85.4%Gemini 4 Argon
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured68.1%Only MiniMax M3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured72.7%Only MiniMax M3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured68.4%Only MiniMax M3 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)58.8%46.3%Gemini 4 Argon
SimpleQA Verified76.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
LMArena Text: science15481452Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare15551441Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: legal and government15481437Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: business and finance15251434Gemini 4 Argon
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
Web design benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
Design Arena: websites13151257Gemini 4 Argon
Design Arena: UI components13331246Gemini 4 Argon
Design Arena: game dev13771210Gemini 4 Argon
Design Arena: data viz13341235Gemini 4 Argon
Design Arena: 3D13891209Gemini 4 Argon
Design Arena: all code categories13281247Gemini 4 Argon
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1161Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1161Only MiniMax M3 measured
LiveBench design73.7%66.2%Gemini 4 Argon
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index181
General benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
Vals Index69.2%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
LiveBench data analysis85.2%76.2%Gemini 4 Argon
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)69.8%64.1%Gemini 4 Argon
SAGE (Vals AI)53.6%50.6%Gemini 4 Argon
MedScribe (Vals AI)87.4%87.3%Gemini 4 Argon
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured60.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
IFBenchNot measured82.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)79.7%83.0%MiniMax M3
DTBench97.6%78.9%Gemini 4 Argon
LMCA63.7%33.7%Gemini 4 Argon
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured55.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Furniture assembly72.5%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Argon measured
LMArena Text15321433Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: instruction following15341433Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: creative writing15271404Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena VisionNot measured1251Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: English15381443Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: non-English15221420Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: Chinese16111466Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: GermanNot measured1428Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: JapaneseNot measured1380Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: KoreanNot measured1373Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: FrenchNot measured1444Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: Spanish15031433Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: Russian15341426Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1423Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn15561443Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: longer queries15471446Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: writing and language15291419Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text: entertainment and media15271403Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1263Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1311Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1259Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1235Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsNot measured1197Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1234Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena DocumentNot measured1435Only MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3Leader
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 4 Argon$0.0070Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 4 Argon$0.130Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 4 Argon$0.500Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 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 4 Argon and MiniMax M3
SpecificationGoogle Gemini 4 ArgonMiniMax M3
MakerGoogleMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedOctober 13, 2026May 31, 2026
Context window1.05M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$2.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$10.00$1.20
Coding index80.557.8
Independent measurements behind it22
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.56
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than MiniMax M3 for coding?

Pick Gemini 4 Argon for coding: it scores 80.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.8 for MiniMax M3. Pick MiniMax M3 when output tokens cost 8.3x less, or when the benchmark that matters is Long context reasoning (AA-LCR), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Argon or MiniMax M3?

Gemini 4 Argon costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 4 Argon or MiniMax M3?

Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 4 Argon vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?

72 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 4 Argon's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M3's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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