Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Small 4

Gemini 3 Flash Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI

30.2

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 21.2.
  • Mistral Small 4 is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 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 Small 4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral Small 4 specifications
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index52.330.2
Released2025-12-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K210K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.30
Results tracked591

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35), Mistral Small 4: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
LMArena Coding1460—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27), Mistral Small 4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
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 Small 4: 21.2

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1465—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA43.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.83—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42), Mistral Small 4: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench15%—
LMArena Math1472—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30), Mistral Small 4: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
GPQA Diamond89.4%—
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
LMArena Expert1461—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15), Mistral Small 4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26), Mistral Small 4: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
LMArena Non-English1458—
LMArena Chinese1510—
LMArena French1478—
LMArena German1497—
LMArena Japanese1488—
LMArena Korean1443—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52), Mistral Small 4: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63), Mistral Small 4: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
LMArena Longer Query1452—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44), Mistral Small 4: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewMistral Small 4
LMArena Text1466—
LMArena Creative Writing1457—
LMArena Multi-Turn1471—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Mistral Small 4?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

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 Small 4 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 4 has 1.

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