Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mixtral 8x22B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 72% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 46% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.827.1
Released2025-02-052024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3234

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Coding13221166
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241150
DTBench52.5%55.1%
ForecastBench57.156.3
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.03
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH37.4%16.3%
LMArena Math13091184
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
MMLU-Pro72%46%
GPQA (HELM)50%33.4%
LMArena Expert13051113
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English13231128
LMArena Chinese13391116
LMArena French13471166
LMArena German13061141
LMArena Japanese13011037
LMArena Korean13251057
LMArena Russian13281158
LMArena Spanish13131151

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
IFEval82.4%72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13051147
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query13201144

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text13301162
LMArena Creative Writing13191141
WildBench79%71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn13071130
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mixtral 8x22B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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