Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Mistral Small

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon 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 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 61.8% for Gemini 4 Argon and 26.5% for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index56.533.4
Released2026-09-302024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked2139

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
SciCode61.8%26.5%
LMArena Coding15501362
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
CritPt27.1%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15481335
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
LiveBench—44%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Math15361341
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—39.9%
MATH Level 5—46.8%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Expert15531291
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Vision—1142
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Non-English15231315
LMArena Chinese16101340
LMArena Russian15371324
LMArena Spanish14971346
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1340
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1259

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following15381310
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query15491327

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small
LMArena Text15341338
LMArena Creative Writing15311305
LMArena Multi-Turn15571344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Mistral Small?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Mistral Small better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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