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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Nemo

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 62.8% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 48.6% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo 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 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.026.4
Released2025-06-172024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.15
Results tracked3310

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
DTBench62.8%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94118.68
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
LMCA18.1%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond—29.9%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
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), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1367—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1366—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo 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.

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 Mistral Nemo share?

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

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