Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Magistral Small

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 30% for Magistral Small.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.729.9
Released2024-10-032025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked2110

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
LMArena Coding1218—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
DTBench50%61.3%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1210—
Epoch Capabilities Index—133.19

Math Magistral Small leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%30%
LMArena Math1207—

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond33%56.1%
LMArena Expert1185—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1215—
LMArena Chinese1231—
LMArena French1233—
LMArena German1206—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1140—
LMArena Russian1236—
LMArena Spanish1212—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMagistral Small
LMArena Text1226—
LMArena Creative Writing1218—
LMArena Multi-Turn1185—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Magistral Small?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Magistral Small better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Magistral Small share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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