Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mistral Medium 3.1

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 27.8 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 60.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 6.5% for Mistral Medium 3.1.
  • Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 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 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.531.9
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K105K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2
Results tracked393

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%6.5%
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Thematic Generalization—20.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
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), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Medium 3.1
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591476
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.

Related comparisons

Go deeper