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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Mistral Small 4

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI

30.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.8 to 21.9.
  • Mistral Small 4 is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 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 262K.
  • Mistral Small 4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.230.8
Released2026-05-19—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K210K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$9$0.30
Results tracked541

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
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), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Mistral Small 4: 21.9

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
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 Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Mistral Small 4: —

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

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
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), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Mistral Small 4?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 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 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mistral Small 4 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 4 has 1.

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