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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 4.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 32.1 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 18.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 5.5% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index36.425.6
Released2025-06-172024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.04
Results tracked336

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
DTBench62.8%51.7%
LMCA18.1%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93118.08
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%7.3%
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1366—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1366—
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1367—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 4.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

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 Ministral 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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