Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Medium

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 25.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 75.5% for Mistral Medium.
  • Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral Medium specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.836.3
Released2025-02-052023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked3236

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Coding13221434
FrontierCode—8%
SciCode—40.2%
WeirdML—43.7%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—763.98

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts13241426
DTBench52.5%75.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Math13091408
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—32.2%
ProofBench—9%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Expert13051408
GPQA Diamond—59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Vision11001172

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English13231408
LMArena Chinese13391447
LMArena French13471459
LMArena German13061432
LMArena Japanese13011378
LMArena Korean13251380
LMArena Russian13281411
LMArena Spanish13131433

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following13051398
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query13201406

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Medium
LMArena Text13301424
LMArena Creative Writing13191391
LMArena Multi-Turn13071418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mistral Medium?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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