Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Mistral Small

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.1

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 10 categories and Mistral Small in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 48.8 to 15.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 5.8% for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Mistral Small specifications
Gemini 3 ProMistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.733.1
Released2025-11-182024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked6739

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
LMArena Coding14821363
ALE-Bench1,177497.62
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—26.5%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%37.1%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
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 (#28), Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%37.8%
CritPt6.9%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811336
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96—
ForecastBench61.2—
LiveBench—44%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%5.8%
LMArena Math14751341
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LiveBench Math—39.9%
MATH Level 5—46.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
GPQA Diamond92.6%47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%5.1%
LMArena Expert14751293
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
LMArena Vision13051142
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
LMArena Non-English14741315
LMArena Chinese15221342
LMArena French14921337
LMArena German15171341
LMArena Japanese15131275
LMArena Korean14491260
LMArena Russian14931324
LMArena Spanish14681346

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following14581310
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query14721327
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small
LMArena Text14791338
LMArena Creative Writing14821304
LMArena Multi-Turn14841344
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Mistral Small?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Mistral Small better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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