Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want high-throughput agents that need big context cheaply. Choose MiniMax M2.1 if you want tool-heavy personal and autonomous agents on a budget.
In our editorial scoring, Gemini 3.5 Flash leads in 4 of five dimensions (output quality, agentic ability, speed and reliability), while MiniMax M2.1 leads in 1. On price, Gemini 3.5 Flash runs about $3.75 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; MiniMax M2.1 is about $0.49 and open-weight.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.