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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 34× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 66.3 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.8% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 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 131K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.226.2
Released2026-05-192024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$9$0.10
Results tracked546

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
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: 24.7 (#114), Ministral 3B: —

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

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
DTBench94.7%51.7%
LMCA47.1%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46118.1
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%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1504—
MATH Level 5—14.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond92.8%25.3%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1495—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1476—
LMArena Chinese1526—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1492—
LMArena Japanese1486—
LMArena Korean1451—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1480—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 34× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 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 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Ministral 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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