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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Large 3

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large 3 costs 3.0× 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 #40 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large 3 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 83.1% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 7.5% for Mistral Large 3.
  • Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 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 262K.
  • Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index52.339.1
Released2025-12-172025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.75
Results tracked5924

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena WebDev14391230
LMArena Coding14601448
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
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 (#37), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%7.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651429
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50.9%
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
Thematic Generalization—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA43.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena Math14731414
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench15%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%14.5%
LMArena Expert14621421
GPQA Diamond89.4%—
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision12851221
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English14581413
LMArena Chinese15111447
LMArena French14771455
LMArena German14971437
LMArena Japanese14891394
LMArena Korean14431384
LMArena Russian14801411
LMArena Spanish14691440

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following14371403

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query14521413

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Large 3
LMArena Text14661428
LMArena Creative Writing14571386
LMArena Multi-Turn14711429
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1412

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Mistral Large 3?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large 3 costs 3.0× 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 Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

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

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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