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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large 3 in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 51.7.
  • Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.839.1
Released2025-02-052025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.75
Results tracked3224

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Coding13221448
LMArena WebDev—1230
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Hard Prompts13241429
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—7.5%
Thematic Generalization—23%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Math13091414
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Expert13051421
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.5%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision11001221

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English13231413
LMArena Chinese13391447
LMArena French13471455
LMArena German13061437
LMArena Japanese13011394
LMArena Korean13251384
LMArena Russian13281411
LMArena Spanish13131440

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following13051403
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query13201413

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Large 3
LMArena Text13301428
LMArena Creative Writing13191386
LMArena Multi-Turn13071429
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1412
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral Large 3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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