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.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

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 and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.831.2
Released2025-02-052025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.74
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

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.

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