Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Small 3

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #278 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.7 to 32.2.
  • Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.831.2
Released2025-02-052025-01-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
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 Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Coding13221246
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.3%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—50.4%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Hard Prompts13241233
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.07
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Math13091240
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Expert13051202
GPQA Diamond—47.3%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—25.2%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mistral Small 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English13231198
LMArena Chinese13391204
LMArena French13471203
LMArena German13061211
LMArena Japanese13011111
LMArena Korean13251188
LMArena Russian13281216
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following13051214
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query13201246

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3
LMArena Text13301234
LMArena Creative Writing13191195
LMArena Multi-Turn13071217
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—707
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

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

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