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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mistral Small 3.2

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small 3.2 costs 6.4× 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 . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 26.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $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 256K.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.531.2
Released2026-07-212025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M256K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Results tracked396

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
Chess Puzzles22%1%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13131.74
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%30.3%
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), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond83.3%49.1%
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
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 Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral Small 3.2
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591255
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small 3.2 costs 6.4× 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 Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 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 256K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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