Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Mistral Medium

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 42.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
  • Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.936.3
Released2024-10-032023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked2136

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Coding12181434
FrontierCode—8%
SciCode—40.2%
WeirdML—43.7%
ALE-Bench—763.98

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts12091426
DTBench50%75.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%

Math Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%32.2%
LMArena Math12071408
ProofBench—9%
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
GPQA Diamond33%59.5%
LMArena Expert11851408
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%

Multimodal Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Vision10441172

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English12151408
LMArena Chinese12311447
LMArena French12341459
LMArena German12061432
LMArena Japanese11501378
LMArena Korean11401380
LMArena Russian12361411
LMArena Spanish12121433

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following11991398

Long Context Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query12191406

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMistral Medium
LMArena Text12261424
LMArena Creative Writing12181391
LMArena Multi-Turn11851418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Mistral Medium share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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