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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Ministral 3 14B 2512

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Ministral 3 14B 2512 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Ministral 3 14B 2512 Mistral AI

33.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 29.2.
  • Ministral 3 14B 2512 is cheaper at $0.20 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Ministral 3 14B 2512 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.133.9
Released2026-07-212025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.20
Results tracked461

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Ministral 3 14B 2512: 29.2

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—19.4%
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
LMArena Non-English1469—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1504—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1476—
LMArena Korean1431—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1475—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Ministral 3 14B 2512: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 14B 2512
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Ministral 3 14B 2512?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Ministral 3 14B 2512 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Ministral 3 14B 2512?

Ministral 3 14B 2512 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Ministral 3 14B 2512 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3 14B 2512 has 1.

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