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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Pixtral 12B

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

31.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral 12B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 38.5 to 23.9.
  • Pixtral 12B 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.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.131.3
Released2026-07-212024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.15
Results tracked462

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
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), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
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), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
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), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Vision12981009
GeoBench—37%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
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), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Pixtral 12B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Pixtral 12B?

Pixtral 12B 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 Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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