Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Magistral Small

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Magistral Small in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 22.0 to 6.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 61.3% for Magistral Small.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.830.2
Released2025-02-052025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked3210

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
DTBench52.5%61.3%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—133.19
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Magistral Small?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

They score almost the same on coding (37.9 vs 38.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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