Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 69.8 to 26.6.
  • Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.075 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 Flash and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) specifications
Gemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index59.832.3
Released2026-08-132025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.075
Results tracked441

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1593—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
LMArena Coding1499—
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1497—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1511—

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): 26.6

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—21.7%
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Non-English1485—
LMArena Chinese1553—
LMArena French1512—
LMArena German1485—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1486—
LMArena Russian1519—
LMArena Spanish1507—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Instruction Following1486—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Longer Query1493—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch): —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3 8B 2512 (batch)
LMArena Text1487—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1495—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)?

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)?

Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.075 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) has 1.

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