MiniMax-M2.7 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
google · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$2.50
AA index
22.2
proprietary · 1M context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | MiniMax-M2.7 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 228.7 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 204,800 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | other | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 438,954 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 7.9 M | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-09 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.20 | $2.50 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.50 | $2.80 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.06 | $0.03 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.8 | 22.2 |
| AA Coding Index | 52.6 | 49.3 |
| AA Agentic Index | 15.3 | 14.3 |
| Max output tokens | 131,072 | 65,536 |
| API providers | 5 | 2 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
MiniMax-M2.7
$1.50
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
$2.80
MiniMax-M2.7 is 1.9× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
MiniMax-M2.7 · fp16 @ 200K ctx
1,111.3 GB / 24 GB