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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mistral Nemo

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 5.7× 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 . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 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.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.526.4
Released2026-07-212024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.15
Results tracked3910

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

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

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

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
APEX-Agents29.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
DTBench83.5%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13118.68
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LMCA37.6%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond83.3%29.9%
LMArena Expert1435—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
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 Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559881
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 5.7× 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 Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 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 128K.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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