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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Magistral Small

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Magistral Small in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 27.8 to 6.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 53.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 5% for Magistral Small.
  • Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.530.2
Released2026-07-212025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K40K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$1.50
Results tracked3910

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
SciCode41.3%35.2%
LMArena WebDev1440—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

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

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
ARC-AGI-210.3%0%
ARC-AGI-153.5%5%
CritPt0%0.3%
Chess Puzzles22%3%
DTBench83.5%61.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13133.19
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LMCA37.6%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%30%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond83.3%56.1%
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1427—
LMArena Chinese1469—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMagistral Small
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Magistral Small?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

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

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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