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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Nemo

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 10× 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 #33 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 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.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.126.4
Released2026-07-212024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.15
Results tracked4610

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
DTBench95.5%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25118.68
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
LMCA44.9%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond94.1%29.9%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

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

Multilingual Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
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 Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604881
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 10× 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 Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 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 Mistral Nemo share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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