Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Small 3.2
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 26.7.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.74 |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1309 | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | — |
| LMArena French | 1347 | — |
| LMArena German | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |
| IFEval | 82.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| WildBench | 79% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.