MiniMax's previous flagship model — strong long context and multimodal.
Google's most intelligent Flash model, with significant gains over 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.
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Both MiniMax M1 and Gemini 3.8 Flash are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
MiniMax M1 has a lower blended cost. MiniMax M1: $0.55 input / $2.20 output. Gemini 3.8 Flash: $0.83 input / $4.13 output.
Gemini 3.8 Flash has a larger context window: MiniMax M1 supports 1M tokens vs Gemini 3.8 Flash at 1M tokens.
Gemini 3.8 Flash supports vision/image input, but MiniMax M1 does not.
Key differences: only Gemini 3.8 Flash supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both MiniMax M1 and Gemini 3.8 Flash for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.