Gemini 3.1 Pro vs MiniMax M2
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Google · Mar 2026
Google's flagship with the industry's largest context window — 2M tokens — and frontier multimodal reasoning at $2/$12.
MiniMax · Oct 2025
A 10B-active MoE tuned purely for agents and code — striking capability-per-active-parameter at rock-bottom prices.
The verdict
Gemini 3.1 Pro wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for MiniMax M2. On price the gap is dramatic: MiniMax M2 works out roughly 8.6x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 3.1 Pro also takes 2M of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2. And MiniMax M2 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Benchmark head-to-head 1–0
Specs & pricing
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | MiniMax M2 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 68.9 |
| Input price / 1M | $2 | $0.3 |
| Output price / 1M | $12 | $1.2 |
| Context window | 2M | 205K |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (MIT) |
| Reasoning model | yes | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image, audio, video | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Nov 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $38.00 | $4.80 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Gemini 3.1 Pro or MiniMax M2?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for MiniMax M2. On price the gap is dramatic: MiniMax M2 works out roughly 8.6x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 3.1 Pro also takes 2M of context versus 205K for MiniMax M2. And MiniMax M2 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro or MiniMax M2?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro costs $2/$12 per million input/output tokens, while MiniMax M2 costs $0.3/$1.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $38.00 versus $4.80.
- Which model is better for coding, Gemini 3.1 Pro or MiniMax M2?
- On SWE-bench Verified — the standard agentic-coding benchmark — Gemini 3.1 Pro scores ~78% versus 69.4% for MiniMax M2, making Gemini 3.1 Pro the stronger pick for coding agents.