Model comparison
Codestral vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Codestral and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Mistral AI
GoogleSummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 35.5 to 27.3.
Side by side
| Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1218 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1209 |
| DTBench | — | 50% |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1207 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1185 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1044 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1231 |
| LMArena French | — | 1234 |
| LMArena German | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1212 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1199 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1185 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Codestral and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codestral or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.