# Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-lite-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 72% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 46% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 194 | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1150 |
| DTBench | 52.5% | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | 56.3 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1184 |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)
- Mixtral 8x22B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 82.4% | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1147 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1141 |
| WildBench | 79% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 1130 |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mixtral 8x22B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.