compare/Gemini 4 ArgonvsMiniMax M3.1 Flash

Gemini 4 Argon vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Gemini 4 Argon
google/gemini-4-argon
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
ProviderGoogleMiniMax
FamilyMiniMax M
Modalitytexttext
Context window1,048,576 tok1,000,000 tok
Max output65,536 tok131,072 tok
Released2026-10-142026-10-22
Input price$2.00 /1M$0.150 /1M
Output price$10.00 /1M$0.600 /1M
Cache read——
Tools——
Streamingyesyes
Vision——
JSON mode——
Reasoning——
Prompt caching——
Gemini 4 Argon
google/gemini-4-argon
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Google's frontier model for deep work on complex, real-world tasks across coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity and science. The first model in the Gemini 4 family.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
minimax/m3.1-flash
Full spec →

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a fast, cost-efficient multimodal model for agentic tasks, coding, and computer use. It accepts text, image, and video input, always reasons before answering with adjustable effort, and has a 1M-token context window.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Gemini 4 Argon
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-4-argon",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try MiniMax M3.1 Flash — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3.1-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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