Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Mistral Large
Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Large in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.1 to 16.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 51.3% for Mistral Large.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1277 |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1209 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 50% | 65.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math Mistral Large leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | 8.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1207 | 1262 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Mistral Large leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 51.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | 1232 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Mistral Large: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1234 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1206 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | 1268 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1261 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Mistral Large?
Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Mistral Large better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Mistral Large share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.