Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 32.0 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 14.4% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Ministral 3B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index35.126.2
Released2024-12-062024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked546

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
LMArena Coding1350—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Ministral 3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
DTBench63.2%51.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36118.1
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1346—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—5.5%
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
MATH Level 582.2%14.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
LMArena Math1352—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
GPQA Diamond64.1%25.3%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
LMArena Expert1339—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
LMArena Non-English1342—
LMArena Chinese1373—
LMArena French1391—
LMArena German1353—
LMArena Japanese1294—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Russian1351—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1336—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Ministral 3B
LMArena Text1354—
LMArena Creative Writing1340—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1350—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Ministral 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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