Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Mixtral 8x7B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B 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 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 81.8% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index40.426.8
Released2026-03-032023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M32K
Max output66K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.70
Results tracked3838

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14001127
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071115
DTBench76.8%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45118.38
ForecastBench54.456.3
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMCA35%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math14271147
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond81.8%30.6%
LMArena Expert13971088
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14101077
LMArena Chinese14611055
LMArena French14231165
LMArena German14291114
LMArena Japanese1411931
LMArena Korean1393968
LMArena Russian14201090
LMArena Spanish14201110

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following13761110
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query13941103

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14161132
LMArena Creative Writing14011109
LMArena Multi-Turn14171115
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Mixtral 8x7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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