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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Mistral Small

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.5

Unranked Sparse

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.1

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.8 to 19.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 25.7% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 0% for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index58.533.1
Released2026-02-122024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked339

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
SciCode—26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
LMArena Coding—1363
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.8 (#11), Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
CritPt25.7%0%
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
ARC-AGI-196%—
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1336
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
LiveBench—44%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
LiveBench Math—39.9%
LMArena Math—1341
MATH Level 5—46.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
LMArena Expert—1293
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
LMArena Vision—1142

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
LMArena Non-English—1315
LMArena Chinese—1342
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1341
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1260
LMArena Russian—1324
LMArena Spanish—1346

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1310

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query—1327

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMistral Small
LMArena Text—1338
LMArena Creative Writing—1304
LMArena Multi-Turn—1344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Mistral Small?

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Mistral Small share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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