Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Mixtral 8x22B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 9 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.9 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 52.2% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 3.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index40.827.1
Released2026-03-032024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M64K
Max output66K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$6
Results tracked3834

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML52.2%3.2%
LMArena Coding14001166
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench797.73—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071150
DTBench76.8%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47122.03
ForecastBench54.456.3
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMCA35%—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math14281184
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
Omni-MATH—16.3%
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond81.8%34.1%
LMArena Expert13981113
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
MMLU-Pro—46%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English14111128
LMArena Chinese14611116
LMArena French14241166
LMArena German14291141
LMArena Japanese14131037
LMArena Korean13921057
LMArena Russian14201158
LMArena Spanish14211151

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following13771147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query13941144

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text14161162
LMArena Creative Writing14011141
LMArena Multi-Turn14171130
WildBench—71.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Mixtral 8x22B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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