# Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Mistral Small

> Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-pro-vs-mistral-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral Small in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 39.7 to 16.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 46.8% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 173 | 243 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187)
- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 63.5% | 36.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | 35.6% | — |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: —
- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198)
- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 60.1% | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 68% | 53.7% |
| LiveBench | 65.1% | 44% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.06 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100)
- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 71% | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | 83.5% | 46.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1341 |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167)
- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | 47.5% |
| Confabulations | 18.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: —
- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: —
- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59)
- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 83.4% | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1310 |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292)
- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 41.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165)
- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Language | 44.9% | 30.5% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Mistral Small?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Mistral Small better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Mistral Small share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.