Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Large

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 51.7 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index52.331.9
Released2025-12-172024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$2
Output $ / M tokens$3$6
Results tracked5951

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
LMArena Coding14601277
ALE-Bench1,367264.7
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—36.2%
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%
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 (#37), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
SimpleBench61.1%22.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651257
DTBench89.1%65.1%
LMCA43.1%16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8128.52
ForecastBench58.557.1
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles40%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LiveBench—48.4%

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%8.5%
LMArena Math14731262
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%0.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
GPQA Diamond89.4%51.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%4.5%
LMArena Expert14621232
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
MMLU—80%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Mistral Large: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
LMArena Non-English14581237
LMArena Chinese15111240
LMArena French14771325
LMArena German14971254
LMArena Japanese14891188
LMArena Korean14431202
LMArena Russian14801257
LMArena Spanish14691268

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following14371249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
LMArena Longer Query14521261

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large
LMArena Text14661266
LMArena Creative Writing14571243
LMArena Multi-Turn14711260
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—985
WildBench—80.1%
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Mistral Large?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Mistral Large?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Mistral Large better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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