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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mixtral 8x22B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.127.1
Released2026-07-212024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M64K
Max output66K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$6
Results tracked4634

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML56.1%3.2%
LMArena Coding14911166
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench715.52—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Cybench—7.5%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851150
DTBench95.5%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25122.03
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
LMCA44.9%—
ForecastBench—56.3

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math15051184
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—16.3%
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond94.1%34.1%
LMArena Expert14881113
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English14691128
LMArena Chinese15311116
LMArena French15041166
LMArena German14781141
LMArena Japanese14761037
LMArena Korean14311057
LMArena Russian14871158
LMArena Spanish14751151

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following14661147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query14741144

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text14791162
LMArena Creative Writing14651141
LMArena Multi-Turn14811130
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
WildBench—71.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mixtral 8x22B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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