Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Ministral 3B
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 86× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 55.8 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 95.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 14.4% for Ministral 3B.
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 44.9 | 25.6 |
| Released | 2025-03-25 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | 128K |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.04 |
| Results tracked | 78 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 53.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1227 | — |
| SciCode | 42.8% | — |
| GSO | 3.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 54% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 85.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1452 | — |
| CadEval | 64% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.52 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.51 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | — |
| GDPval | 23.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 13.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | 43.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 55.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 573.64 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 82.4% | 51.7% |
| LMCA | 34.8% | 5.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.32 | 118.08 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 41% | — |
| CritPt | 2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1455 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 79.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.3 | — |
| LiveBench | 82.3% | — |
Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 95.9% | 14.4% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 24.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 41.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 90.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1450 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 14.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.3% | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | 7.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 21.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | — |
| GeoBench | 86% | — |
| VPCT | 48% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 44.7% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1452 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | — |
| LMArena French | 1473 | — |
| LMArena German | 1487 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1462 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1435 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1460 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.6% | — |
| IFEval | 84% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1436 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1449 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1453 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1421 | — |
| WildBench | 85.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 67.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Ministral 3B?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 86× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Ministral 3B?
Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Ministral 3B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.