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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Small 3.1

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 37.4% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 24.8% for Mistral Small 3.1.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.831.7
Released2025-02-052025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked3228

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding13221309
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13241278
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.48
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
Omni-MATH37.4%24.8%
LMArena Math13091262
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—3.9%
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
MMLU-Pro72%61%
GPQA (HELM)50%39.2%
LMArena Expert13051257
GPQA Diamond—41.9%

Multimodal Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision11001136

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English13231255
LMArena Chinese13391253
LMArena French13471273
LMArena German13061266
LMArena Japanese13011208
LMArena Korean13251206
LMArena Russian13281263
LMArena Spanish13131283

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
IFEval82.4%75%
LMArena Instruction Following13051264
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query13201299

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text13301277
LMArena Creative Writing13191253
WildBench79%78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn13071270
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—761
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.9 vs 38.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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