Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Ministral 8B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 32.5 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 36.9% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 11.1% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 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 262K.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.028.2
Released2025-06-172024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.15
Results tracked3317

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding13731202
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%11.1%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771191
DTBench62.8%45.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Math13731188
Omni-MATH48%—
MATH Level 5—14.9%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%7.4%
LMArena Expert13731170
GPQA Diamond—27.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English13691165
LMArena Chinese14041193
LMArena Russian13731195
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following13671161
IFEval81%—

Long Context Ministral 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query13731212
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMinistral 8B
LMArena Text13791191
LMArena Creative Writing13671175
LMArena Multi-Turn13661166
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Ministral 8B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Ministral 8B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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