Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Mixtral 8x7B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 34.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 48% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 10.5% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.027.1
Released2025-06-172023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M32K
Max output66K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.70
Results tracked3338

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding13731126
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771115
DTBench62.8%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94118.47
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
LMCA18.1%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
Omni-MATH48%10.5%
LMArena Math13731147
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
MMLU-Pro53.7%33.5%
GPQA (HELM)30.9%29.6%
LMArena Expert13731088
GPQA Diamond—30.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English13691077
LMArena Chinese14041055
LMArena French13881166
LMArena German13891114
LMArena Japanese1359931
LMArena Korean1360968
LMArena Russian13731090
LMArena Spanish13961111

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
IFEval81%57.5%
LMArena Instruction Following13671109

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query13731103
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text13791132
LMArena Creative Writing13671109
WildBench81.8%67.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn13661115

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Mixtral 8x7B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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