Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Magistral Medium in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 21.7 to 8.6.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1250 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1254 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1275 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.