How do Gemini 3.6 Flash and MiniMax-M3 compare on coding benchmarks?

The comparison table shows SWE-bench, SWE-Pro, SWE-Atlas, Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, and coding agent index scores for both Gemini 3.6 Flash and MiniMax-M3 when publicly disclosed.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax-M3: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Q: Which is better: Gemini 3.6 Flash or MiniMax-M3?

AskClash compares Gemini 3.6 Flash and MiniMax-M3 side by side across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, and context window so you can see which model wins on each benchmark.

Side-by-side Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax-M3 comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.

Open live leaderboard Gemini 3.6 Flash model page MiniMax-M3 model page

Rank #17 vs #18AskClash overall scores 62.9 vs 59.7.

Pricing $1.50/$7.50 vs $0.30/$1.20Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.

Proprietary vs Open WeightGoogle vs MiniMax.

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax-M3 benchmark comparison

Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.

Metric	Gemini 3.6 Flash	MiniMax-M3
Overall Score	62.9	59.7
Leaderboard Rank	#17	#18
RWT	—	8.5
HLE	38.0	37.1
GPQA	92.8	92.9
IFEval	—	82.9
SWE-bench	—	80.5
SWE-Pro	58.7	59.0
Terminal-Bench	78.0	66.0
DeepSWE	49.0	—
OSWorld	83.0	70.1
MCP Atlas	—	74.2
Finance Agent	—	48.3
CharXiv	85.2	—
MMMU-Pro	83.2	78.1
Tau2	—	88.9
MRCR	91.8	—
Input Price (per 1M tokens)	$1.50	$0.30
Output Price (per 1M tokens)	$7.50	$1.20
Context Window	1M	1M
Benchmarks Published	11	13

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax-M3 head-to-head charts

Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 5 and MiniMax-M3 leads 2 of 7 shared benchmarks. MiniMax-M3 is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Gemini 3.6 FlashMiniMax-M3

Overall

62.9Gemini 3.6 Flash

59.7MiniMax-M3

HLE

38.0Gemini 3.6 Flash

37.1MiniMax-M3

GPQA

92.8Gemini 3.6 Flash

92.9MiniMax-M3

SWE-Pro

58.7Gemini 3.6 Flash

59.0MiniMax-M3

Terminal-Bench

78.0Gemini 3.6 Flash

66.0MiniMax-M3

OSWorld

83.0Gemini 3.6 Flash

70.1MiniMax-M3

MMMU-Pro

83.2Gemini 3.6 Flash

78.1MiniMax-M3

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Input$1.50

Output$7.50

Workload$3.00

Context1M

MiniMax-M3

Input$0.30

Output$1.20

Workload$0.54

Context1M

Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.

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How to read this comparison

Benchmark scores

Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.

Token pricing

Lower is better for input and output prices. Green marks the cheaper model per 1M tokens.

Coverage matters

Models with fewer disclosed benchmark cells may have inflated percentile scores. Check the benchmark cell count for context.

This comparison page is generated from the AskClash LLM leaderboard cache. Open the live leaderboard for real-time scores and interactive filtering.