Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 17.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
  • Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
Gemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.840.2
Released2025-11-18—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—210K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked6722

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev14401264
LMArena Coding14811461
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Mistral Medium 3.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
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), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%12.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801436
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92141.35
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math14761431
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert14751432
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision13051223
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English14741404
LMArena Chinese15231442
LMArena French14921448
LMArena German15151451
LMArena Korean14481385
LMArena Russian14931395
LMArena Spanish14701409
LMArena Japanese1510—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following14581415
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query14711415
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text14791421
LMArena Creative Writing14821374
LMArena Multi-Turn14841423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—993

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.

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