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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 17.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 89% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.140.2
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K210K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$7.50
Results tracked4622

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev15381264
LMArena Coding14911461
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Mistral Medium 3.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
NYT Connections (extended)89%12.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851436
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25141.35
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—41.4%
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math15051431
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert14881432
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision12981223
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English14691404
LMArena Chinese15311442
LMArena French15041448
LMArena German14781451
LMArena Korean14311385
LMArena Russian14871395
LMArena Spanish14751409
LMArena Japanese1476—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following14661415

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query14741415

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text14791421
LMArena Creative Writing14651374
LMArena Multi-Turn14811423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
EQ-Bench 4—993

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

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 Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.

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