Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Mistral Nemo

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 53.8 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 56.2% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 27.6% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 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 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mistral Nemo specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index39.326.4
Released2025-04-172024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.15
Results tracked5410

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
LMArena Coding1424—
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%27.6%
BALROG33.5%17.6%
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
DTBench76.5%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03118.68
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1422—
LMCA27.5%—
ForecastBench60.6—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
LMArena Math1415—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond—29.9%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
LMArena Expert1426—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

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

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1409—
LMArena Chinese1450—
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Russian1415—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
IFEval89.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1405—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1419—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137881
LMArena Text1417—
LMArena Creative Writing1400—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
WildBench81.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1408—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 5.7× 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 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 lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mistral Nemo share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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