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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 26.2 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 14.4% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index33.226.2
Released2024-05-142024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked426

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
DTBench53.8%51.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36118.1
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
LMCA—5.5%
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Ministral 3B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
MATH Level 561.9%14.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
GPQA Diamond47.3%25.3%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Ministral 3B
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Ministral 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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