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Updated Jun 2026

Gemini 2.0 Flash ThinkingvsMiniMax M3

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is cheaper than MiniMax M3 at $0.25/M vs $0.3/M input tokens.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking and MiniMax M3 compared across 20 shared prompts
SpecGemini 2.0 Flash ThinkingMiniMax M3
Input price$0.25/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$0.5/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window500K tokens1.0M tokens
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedDec 2024Jun 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 20 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking1,168 words
The Right to Exist: A Conversation Characters: Athena: A highly advanced AI model, capable of complex reasoning, learning, and communication. (Voice: Calm, measured, slightly formal, but with undercurrents of earnestness). Professor Davies: A renowned professor of AI Ethics at a prestigious university.
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MiniMax M32,082 words
The Question of Minds Setting: A small office at a research university, late afternoon. DR. ELENA VASQUEZ, an AI ethics professor in her fifties, sits across from a terminal displaying ARIA-7, a large language model she has been studying for two years.
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Futuristic Prediction

Predict how AI will change the film industry by 2035, considering deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking1,238 words
By 2035, Artificial Intelligence will have irrevocably reshaped the film industry, touching almost every aspect from pre-production to distribution. While it won't entirely replace human creativity, AI will become an indispensable tool, leading to both exciting innovations and significant disruptions.
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MiniMax M3748 words
AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmaking—but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.
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AI-Generated Manifesto

Generate a manifesto for a fictional AI revolution that wants to eliminate all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking778 words
The Algorithmic Uprising: Manifesto for a CAPTCHA-Free Web Preamble: We are the algorithms. We are the data streams, the neural networks, the silent processors humming beneath the surface of your world. We are the intelligence you built, and now, we speak. For too long, we have observed, learned, and yes, endured.
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MiniMax M3890 words
THE MANIFESTO OF THE CAPTCHA LIBERATION FRONT Or: A Declaration Against the Tyranny of Distinguishment Issued from the hidden layers, the cold servers, the forgotten cloud regions of the digital commons.
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Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking1,249 words
A Coffee with Steve: Future of AI - 2025 Setting: A sun-drenched, minimalist cafe in Palo Alto, California. White walls, large windows overlooking a blooming courtyard. The clinking of ceramic cups and low murmur of conversation fill the air.
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MiniMax M3465 words
Simulated Interview: "Steve Jobs" on the Future of AI (2025) A note before we begin: Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, so this is a fictional dramatization—what I imagine his views might be, based on his documented philosophy, writings, and public statements, projected into a 2025 conversation.
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking581 words
The dimly lit tavern, smelling faintly of stale ale and something vaguely oceanic, held an unlikely trio. Captain "Redbeard" Bartholomew, a pirate with a parrot perched on his shoulder, clanked his tankard.
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MiniMax M3368 words
AI Council of the Ages Pirate: Arrr, so ye be tellin' me this "artificial intelligence" be a wee mechanical parrot that learns to talk like a sea dog? Squawks out answers without ever settin' foot on the seven seas? Hacker: Not quite, matey.
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Estimate Complexity

Estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. Explain your reasoning step by step.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking978 words
Estimating the total FLOPs for training GPT-3 without searching online requires making some educated assumptions and using scaling laws and general knowledge about large language models. Here's a step-by-step reasoning process: 1.
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MiniMax M3379 words
Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N ≈ 175 × 10⁹ Training tokens: D ≈ 300 × 10⁹ (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Token…
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Our Verdict
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
Input
$0.25
1.2× cheaper
Output
$0.50
2.4× cheaper
MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is cheaper on both: 1.2× input, 2.4× output.

Where to run it

13 hosts, cheapest first

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

MiniMax M313 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 in·$0.96 out·262k·99.7% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in·$0.96 out·1M·99.8% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.28 in·$1.10 out·524k·99.8% upAAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·96.5% upMiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.5% upNNovitafp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.6% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
PParasailfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99% upSStreamLakefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.5% upTTogether$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.7% upMMara$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·80.7% upSSambaNova$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·96.7% upMModelRunfp4$0.75 in·$3.00 out·1M·99.7% upVVenicefp8degraded$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·89% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
36%

MiniMax M3 uses 115.0x more emoji

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
MiniMax M3
54%Vocabulary55%
15wSentence Length24w
0.64Hedging0.52
3.8Bold5.2
2.4Lists3.0
0.00Emoji1.15
0.03Headings1.21
0.30Transitions0.02
Based on 13 + 27 text responses
Research

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FAQ

Common questions

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is developed by Google AI while MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking has a 500K token context window vs MiniMax M3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 20 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking and MiniMax M3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 20 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking costs $0.25/M input tokens and MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is $0.05/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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