Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Mistral Small 3.1

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.1

Rank #327 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.4

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 41.4 to 33.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 41.9% for Mistral Small 3.1.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Mistral Small 3.1 specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index27.131.4
Released2023-12-132025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked2428

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 31.6 (#270), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding11081309
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 16.4 (#292), Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Hard Prompts11091278
Epoch Capabilities Index116.97127.48
Chess Puzzles—1%
DTBench45.9%—

Math Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 8.7 (#315), Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%3.9%
LMArena Math11321261
Omni-MATH—24.8%
MATH Level 511.2%—

Knowledge Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.5 (#286), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
GPQA Diamond34%41.9%
LMArena Expert10591258
MMLU-Pro—61%
GPQA (HELM)—39.2%
MMLU70%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision—1136

Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.5 (#247), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English11381255
LMArena Chinese11241254
LMArena French11441270
LMArena German11251266
LMArena Japanese10231210
LMArena Russian11861263
LMArena Spanish11181283
LMArena Korean—1206

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.9 (#262), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.8 (#225)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following11141264
IFEval—75%

Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#244), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query11321300

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.2 (#259), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text11491278
LMArena Creative Writing11301253
LMArena Multi-Turn11391270
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—761
WildBench—78.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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