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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Small 4

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI

30.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 21.9.
  • Mistral Small 4 is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 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 262K.
  • Mistral Small 4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.130.8
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K210K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.30
Results tracked461

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
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 Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mistral Small 4: 21.9

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
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 Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
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 Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
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 Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Small 4
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mistral Small 4?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 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 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Small 4 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 4 has 1.

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