Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Ministral 8B
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 7 categories and Ministral 8B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 32.0 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 28.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Ministral 8B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1202 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Ministral 8B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1191 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 45.7% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1170 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Ministral 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | — |
| LMArena German | 1353 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1161 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1212 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1166 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Ministral 8B?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Ministral 8B better for coding?
Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Ministral 8B share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.