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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) Mistral AI

32.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 26.6.
  • Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.075 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 128K.
  • Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.132.3
Released2026-07-212025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.075
Results tracked461

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): 26.6

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—21.7%
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) has 1.

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