Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Magistral Small

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Magistral Small in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 6.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 80.1% for Gemini 3 Pro and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Magistral Small specifications
Gemini 3 ProMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.830.2
Released2025-11-182025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked6710

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—35.2%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Magistral Small: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
ARC-AGI-231.1%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%6.3%
ARC-AGI-175%5%
CritPt6.9%0.3%
Chess Puzzles31%3%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92133.19
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
DTBench—61.3%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%30%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond92.6%56.1%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Magistral Small: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Magistral Small: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Magistral Small: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Magistral Small: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Magistral Small: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMagistral Small
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Magistral Small?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Magistral Small better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Magistral Small share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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