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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 38× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 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 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.125.6
Released2026-07-212024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.04
Results tracked466

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
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 3B: —

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

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
DTBench95.5%51.7%
LMCA44.9%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36118.08
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond94.1%25.3%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
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 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 38× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 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 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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