Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Mistral Small 3
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
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- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 6.7% for Mistral Small 3.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | 45.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | 50.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 127.07 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1240 |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1202 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1203 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1214 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1246 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1195 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | 707 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1217 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Mistral Small 3?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Mistral Small 3 share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.