Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Pixtral 12B

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#14); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

31.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 Flash leads 37.3 to 23.9.
  • Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 Flash and Pixtral 12B specifications
Gemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index59.831.3
Released2026-08-132024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.15
Results tracked442

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22), Pixtral 12B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
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), Pixtral 12B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15), Pixtral 12B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1494—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.27—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23), Pixtral 12B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1507—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5), Pixtral 12B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73), Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Vision13161009
GeoBench—37%
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7), Pixtral 12B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
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), Pixtral 12B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1483—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30), Pixtral 12B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1492—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20), Pixtral 12B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Text1486—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1489—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Pixtral 12B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#14); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 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 Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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