Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large 3 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 38.7 to 22.1.
- Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1448 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| 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), Mistral Large 3: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1414 |
| 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 Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1421 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | 1221 |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1440 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1403 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1386 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1429 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 34.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Mistral Large 3 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.