Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Mistral

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.4

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.7 to 16.3.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index40.429.4
Released2026-03-03—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3822

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Mistral: 33.2 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Coding14001162
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Mistral: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Mistral: 21.3 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Hard Prompts14071149
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Mistral: 20.5 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Math14271180
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
Omni-MATH—7.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Mistral: 16.3 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Expert13971125
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Mistral: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Mistral: 33.0 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Non-English14101129
LMArena Chinese14611109
LMArena French14231179
LMArena German14291155
LMArena Japanese14111012
LMArena Korean13931032
LMArena Russian14201168
LMArena Spanish14201143

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Mistral: 52.9 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Instruction Following13761152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Mistral: 35.0 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Longer Query13941154

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Mistral: 37.2 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral
LMArena Text14161165
LMArena Creative Writing14011158
LMArena Multi-Turn14171147
WildBench—66%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Mistral?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Mistral better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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