# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs MiniMax M3

On provider list prices, MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 per million input tokens against $1.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5.0x apart. Output is $1.20 against $9 (7.5x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash | MiniMax M3 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Google | MiniMaxAI |
| Access | API only | API only |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 512K tokens |
| List price, input | $1.50 / M tokens | $0.30 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $9 / M tokens | $1.20 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | $0.06 / M tokens |
| License | Proprietary API | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | No | No |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $780 a month on MiniMax M3 and $4,950 on Gemini 3.5 Flash at list: a gap of $4,170, or 6.3x.

Gemini 3.5 Flash reads 1M tokens per request against 512K for MiniMax M3, 1.9x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash for

- High-volume support and triage
- Document extraction at scale
- Vision and OCR pipelines

## Choose MiniMax M3 for

- The lower list price ($0.30 in / $1.20 out per M tokens)
- Published cached-input pricing ($0.06 per M tokens)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens in and out against $1.50/$9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash. Billed on Allocate: $0.32/$1.28 against $1.60/$9.63, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 524,288 (512K) for MiniMax M3.

### Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.5 Flash or MiniMax M3?

No. Both are closed models served over API. If you want a model you can train and own, start from an open-weights base in the catalog.

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