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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 10.4.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.826.2
Released2025-02-052024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
DTBench52.5%51.7%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.1
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
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), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Ministral 3B: —

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Ministral 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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