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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) Mistral AI

32.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 66.3 to 26.6.
  • Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.075 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.132.3
Released2026-05-192025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$9$0.075
Results tracked541

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1502—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): 26.6

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—21.7%
LMArena Expert1493—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Non-English1475—
LMArena Chinese1525—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—
LMArena Russian1491—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)?

Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.075 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) has 1.

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