# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Ministral 8B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Ministral 8B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 26.2 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 28.2 |
| Rank | 246 | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1202 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1191 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | 45.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1170 |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Ministral 8B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1161 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1166 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Ministral 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Ministral 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 35.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Ministral 8B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.