Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Mistral Small

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 10 categories and Mistral Small in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 69.6 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.2% for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 5.8% for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 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 262K.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 Flash and Mistral Small specifications
Gemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index59.833.4
Released2026-08-132024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K256K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.60
Results tracked4439

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
SciCode59.8%26.5%
LMArena Coding14971362
ALE-Bench904.3497.62
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1592—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19), Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
CritPt14.3%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14941335
DTBench96.8%70.9%
LMCA50.4%20.6%
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index157.27—
LiveBench—44%

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%5.8%
LMArena Math15071341
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
ProofBench58%—
LiveBench Math—39.9%
MATH Level 5—46.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
GPQA Diamond94.8%47.5%
LMArena Expert15081291
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73), Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
LMArena Vision13161142
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
LMArena Non-English14841315
LMArena Chinese15481340
LMArena French15051337
LMArena German14981340
LMArena Japanese15121275
LMArena Korean14831259
LMArena Russian15161324
LMArena Spanish15031346

Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following14831310
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query14921327

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashMistral Small
LMArena Text14861338
LMArena Creative Writing14901305
LMArena Multi-Turn14891344
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Mistral Small?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 5.7× 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 Mistral Small?

Mistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or Mistral Small better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.2 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Mistral Small share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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