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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)
Vendor	google	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	62.3	77.0
Input Price	$0.15/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$1.25/M	$0.60/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	65,536	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	61.8	74.9
ai_index_agentic	44.8	59.6
ai_index_coding	81.4	96.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)
SQL Generation	161	167
Code Review	157	162
Code Completion	133	133
Code Refactoring	156	160
Bug Fixing	166	174
Unit Test Generation	146	151
Code Documentation	140	142
Regex Writing	131	134
CI/CD Pipelines	137	141
Frontend Component Design	139	143
Data Analysis	157	164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	149	153
ETL Scripting	147	151
JSON Extraction	145	148
Bulk Data Labeling	134	135
OCR / Document Parsing	143	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	143	145
Long-Document Summarization	153	157
Short-Form Summarization	129	131
Blog Post Writing	135	138

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →