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Gemini 4 Argonvs
MiniMax M2.1
Gemini 4 Argon and MiniMax M2.1 do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. MiniMax M2.1 is 8x cheaper per token.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
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no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
MiniMax M2.1
8x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
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unknown
Providers
2 providers
Google · MiniMax
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · released 2026-09-30
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MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax · released 2025-12-22
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Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 12 only Gemini 4 Argon · 13 only MiniMax M2.1| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | MiniMax M2.1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Gemini 4 Argon reports · 12 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1525.2 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 82.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench | 51.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CWE-bench v1 | 68% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 77.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 55% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.0757 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1679.5 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LVBench | 91.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 53.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 57.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 13718.16 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only MiniMax M2.1 reports · 13 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 74% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 47.4% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (context management) | not reported | 62% ↗ | — | — |
| Multi-SWE-bench | not reported | 49.4% ↗ | — | — |
| OctoCodingbench | not reported | 26.1% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | not reported | 34.7% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | not reported | 72.5% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Droid) | not reported | 71.3% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (mini-swe-agent) | not reported | 67% ↗ | — | — |
| SWT-bench | not reported | 69.3% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-bench 2.0 | not reported | 47.9% ↗ | — | — |
| Toolathlon | not reported | 43.5% ↗ | — | — |
| VIBE (Average) | not reported | 88.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 4 Argon minus MiniMax M2.1 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Gemini 4 Argon | MiniMax M2.1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | — | 205K tokens | — |
| Max output | 1M tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.3 ↗ | MiniMax M2.1 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $1.2 ↗ | MiniMax M2.1 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | $0.03 ↗ | MiniMax M2.1 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $1.5 | MiniMax M2.1 |
| Modalities | text · vision · video | text | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Released | 2026-09-30 | 2025-12-22 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 12 | 13 | — |
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