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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Medium 3.1

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 89% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 6.5% for Mistral Medium 3.1.
  • Mistral Medium 3.1 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 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.131.9
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K105K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2
Results tracked463

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
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 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
NYT Connections (extended)89%6.5%
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Thematic Generalization—20.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
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 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.1
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16041476
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 1.9× 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 Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 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 3.1 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.

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