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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Magistral Medium

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Magistral Medium in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 27.8 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 53.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 6.1% for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.535.2
Released2026-07-212025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$5
Results tracked3922

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
SciCode41.3%39.2%
LMArena Coding14531319
LMArena WebDev1440—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
ARC-AGI-210.3%0%
ARC-AGI-153.5%6.1%
CritPt0%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411267
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Magistral Medium leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Math14331250
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert14351223
GPQA Diamond83.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14271232
LMArena Chinese14691227
LMArena French14511267
LMArena German14541248
LMArena Japanese14271175
LMArena Korean14071125
LMArena Russian14431224
LMArena Spanish14421271

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14201254

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14351295

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Text14351255
LMArena Creative Writing14201245
LMArena Multi-Turn14451275
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Magistral Medium share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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