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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Medium 3

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

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3 Mistral AI

37.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 34.6.
  • Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 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 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.137.0
Released2026-07-212025-05-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2
Results tracked462

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
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), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25134.07
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%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
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), Mistral Medium 3: 34.6

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Confabulations—21.9%
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
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), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mistral Medium 3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mistral Medium 3?

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

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mistral Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 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 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Medium 3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3 has 2.

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