Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.5 to 49.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 40.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 210K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1461 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1264 |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Mistral Medium 3.5: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 41.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 141.35 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1431 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1432 |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | 1223 |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1442 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1385 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1409 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1415 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1415 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1423 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.