# Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Mistral Small

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-mistral-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## Summary

- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral Small in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 36.1 to 15.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 5.8% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 33.1 |
| Rank | 223 | 238 |
| Context | — | 256K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)
- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1363 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | 46.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)
- Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)
- Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 37.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1336 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | 53.7% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | 44% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)
- Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | 39.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1351 | 1341 |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | 46.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)
- Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 47.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1340 | 1293 |
| MMLU | 79.7% | 68.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)
- Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | 1142 |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)
- Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1342 |
| LMArena French | 1390 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1354 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1293 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | 1260 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)
- Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1310 |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)
- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1345 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)
- Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1304 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | 30.5% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Mistral Small?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Mistral Small better for coding?

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Mistral Small share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.