Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mixtral 8x7B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B 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 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 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 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index41.527.1
Released2026-07-212023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M32K
Max output66K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.70
Results tracked3938

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14531126
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411115
DTBench83.5%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13118.47
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LMCA37.6%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math14331147
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond83.3%30.6%
LMArena Expert14351088
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14271077
LMArena Chinese14691055
LMArena French14511166
LMArena German14541114
LMArena Japanese1427931
LMArena Korean1407968
LMArena Russian14431090
LMArena Spanish14421111

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14201109
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14351103

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14351132
LMArena Creative Writing14201109
LMArena Multi-Turn14451115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mixtral 8x7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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