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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Small 3.2

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 45.1.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 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 256K.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index36.430.8
Released2025-06-172025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M256K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.25
Results tracked336

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%40.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93131.73
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
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), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1366—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1366—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1367—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 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 256K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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