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Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 69.7 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.8% for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 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 131K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index59.826.2
Released2026-08-132024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.10
Results tracked446

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1592—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
LMArena Coding1497—
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
DTBench96.8%51.7%
LMCA50.4%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index157.27118.1
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1494—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1507—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond94.8%25.3%
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1484—
LMArena Chinese1548—
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1498—
LMArena Japanese1512—
LMArena Korean1483—
LMArena Russian1516—
LMArena Spanish1503—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1483—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1492—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1486—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1489—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 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 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Ministral 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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