Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Mistral Small 3.1

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 22.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 3.9% for Mistral Small 3.1.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Mistral Small 3.1 specifications
Gemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.831.7
Released2025-11-182025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked6728

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding14811309
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
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 Small 3.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
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 Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
Chess Puzzles31%1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801278
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92127.48
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%3.9%
Omni-MATH55.5%24.8%
LMArena Math14761262
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
GPQA Diamond92.6%41.9%
MMLU-Pro90.3%61%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%39.2%
LMArena Expert14751257
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision13051136
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English14741255
LMArena Chinese15231253
LMArena French14921273
LMArena German15151266
LMArena Japanese15101208
LMArena Korean14481206
LMArena Russian14931263
LMArena Spanish14701283

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
IFEval87.7%75%
LMArena Instruction Following14581264

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query14711299
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text14791277
LMArena Creative Writing14821253
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525761
WildBench85.9%78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841270

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 38.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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