Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking) vs MiniMax M3
Compare Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking) by Google AI against MiniMax M3 by MiniMax, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 11 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MiniMax M3
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MiniMax M3 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking)
Input
$0.15
2.0× cheaper
Output
$3.50
MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
2.9× cheaper
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking) wins input (2.0× cheaper)·MiniMax M3 wins output (2.9× cheaper)
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
43%
MiniMax M3 uses 52.3x more hedging
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking)
MiniMax M3
70%Vocabulary55%
11wSentence Length24w
0.00Hedging0.52
4.2Bold5.2
7.3Lists3.0
0.00Emoji1.15
0.00Headings1.21
0.00Transitions0.02
Based on 3 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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