Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Magistral Small

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Magistral Small in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 22.2 to 6.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 40.5% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.030.2
Released2025-06-172025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K40K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$1.50
Results tracked3310

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%6.3%
DTBench62.8%61.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94133.19
ARC-AGI-2—0%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
LMCA18.1%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30%
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1367—
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1366—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Magistral Small?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Magistral Small?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Magistral Small better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.5 vs 38.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Magistral Small share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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