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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mistral 7B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

22.9

Rank #346 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.6 to 7.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 42.5% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.322.9
Released2025-02-052023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked3237

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Coding13221082
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241067
DTBench52.5%42.5%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—111.97
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench54.3%—
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Math13091085
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.3%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Expert13051036
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English13231012
LMArena Chinese13391009
LMArena French13461036
LMArena German1306987
LMArena Japanese1302878
LMArena Russian13281018
LMArena Spanish13131026
LMArena Korean1325—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following13051060
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query13211060

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Text13301090
LMArena Creative Writing13191068
LMArena Multi-Turn13071062
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mistral 7B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral 7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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