Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Pixtral Large

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

32.2

Rank #259 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 32.9.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index37.032.2
Released2025-06-172024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$6
Results tracked333

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Pixtral Large leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
LMArena Vision11981089
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
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), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePixtral Large
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1367—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—988
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1366—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Pixtral Large?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Pixtral Large?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

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 Pixtral Large share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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