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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral 7B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

22.9

Rank #346 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 58.8 to 7.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 8K.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index52.322.9
Released2025-12-172023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M8K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.25
Results tracked5937

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
LMArena Coding14601082
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench1,367—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#35), Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles40%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651067
DTBench89.1%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.83111.97
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
LMCA43.1%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench58.5—
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42), Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%0.3%
LMArena Math14721085
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30), Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond89.4%15.2%
LMArena Expert14611036
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26), Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14581012
LMArena Chinese15101009
LMArena French14781036
LMArena German1497987
LMArena Japanese1488878
LMArena Russian14801018
LMArena Spanish14701026
LMArena Korean1443—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52), Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14371060

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14521060

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44), Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral 7B
LMArena Text14661090
LMArena Creative Writing14571068
LMArena Multi-Turn14711062

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Mistral 7B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.5 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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