Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mistral 7B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 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 8K.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.523.0
Released2026-07-212023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M8K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Results tracked3937

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Coding14531082
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench765.27—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles22%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411067
DTBench83.5%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13112.21
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LMCA37.6%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%0.3%
LMArena Math14331085
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond83.3%15.2%
LMArena Expert14351036
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14271012
LMArena Chinese14691009
LMArena French14511037
LMArena German1454987
LMArena Japanese1427878
LMArena Russian14431018
LMArena Spanish14421026
LMArena Korean1407—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14201060

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14351060

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral 7B
LMArena Text14351090
LMArena Creative Writing14201068
LMArena Multi-Turn14451062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mistral 7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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