Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 807.5K more tokens in context window than MiniMax M2.1. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $0.55 cheaper per million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.1, released by MiniMax on December 23, 2025, is a large language model with approximately 230 billion parameters featuring strong multi-language programming capabilities and an industry-leading multilingual coding profile. It features a 196K token context window and is optimized for complex real-world software engineering tasks across Rust, Java, Golang, C++, TypeScript, and other languages. M2.1 targets agentic coding workflows and applications requiring production-grade programming across diverse language environments.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Gemini 2.5 Flash
MiniMax M2.1
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI
MiniMax M2.1
Gemini 2.5 Flash
MiniMax M2.1
Gemini 2.5 Flash
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax