Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Mixtral 8x22B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 36.4 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 41.9% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 3.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index39.327.1
Released2025-04-172024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M64K
Max output66K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$6
Results tracked5434

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML41.9%3.2%
LMArena Coding14241166
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench661.88—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
Cybench—7.5%
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221150
DTBench76.5%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03122.03
ForecastBench60.656.3
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
LMCA27.5%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH38.5%16.3%
LMArena Math14151184
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
MATH Level 5—24.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
MMLU-Pro63.9%46%
GPQA (HELM)39%33.4%
LMArena Expert14261113
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Mixtral 8x22B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English14091128
LMArena Chinese14501116
LMArena French14331166
LMArena German14181141
LMArena Japanese14051037
LMArena Korean13851057
LMArena Russian14151158
LMArena Spanish14211151

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
IFEval89.8%72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following14051147

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query14191144
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text14171162
LMArena Creative Writing14001141
WildBench81.7%71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn14081130
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mixtral 8x22B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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