Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Mistral 7B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 39.9 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 2.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 8K.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mistral 7B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index39.323.0
Released2025-04-172023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M8K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Results tracked5437

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Coding14241082
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench661.88—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221067
DTBench76.5%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03112.21
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval2.7%—
LMCA27.5%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench60.6—
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%0.3%
LMArena Math14151085
Omni-MATH38.5%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Expert14261036
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Mistral 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14091012
LMArena Chinese14501009
LMArena French14331037
LMArena German1418987
LMArena Japanese1405878
LMArena Russian14151018
LMArena Spanish14211026
LMArena Korean1385—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14051060
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14191060
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Text14171090
LMArena Creative Writing14001068
LMArena Multi-Turn14081062
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Mistral 7B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mistral 7B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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