Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Magistral Medium

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Magistral Medium in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 22.0 to 8.6.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.835.2
Released2025-02-052025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$5
Results tracked3222

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Coding13221319
SciCode—39.2%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts13241267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
CritPt—0.3%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Math13091250
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert13051223
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English13231232
LMArena Chinese13391227
LMArena French13471267
LMArena German13061248
LMArena Japanese13011175
LMArena Korean13251125
LMArena Russian13281224
LMArena Spanish13131271

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following13051254
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query13201295

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Text13301255
LMArena Creative Writing13191245
LMArena Multi-Turn13071275
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Magistral Medium?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Magistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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