# Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mistral Large

> Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-lite-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Large in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 40.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 133 | 263 |
| Context | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $2.50 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 41.3% | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1277 |
| ALE-Bench | 765.27 | 264.7 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | — |
| WeirdML | 39% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107)
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 29.3% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1441 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 83.5% | 65.1% |
| LMCA | 37.6% | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.13 | 128.52 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 10.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 60.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 53.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 22% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 8.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1433 | 1262 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 26% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| ProofBench | 13% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72)
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.3% | 51.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1435 | 1232 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40)
- Mistral Large: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1268 | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63)
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1469 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1451 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1454 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1427 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1443 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1442 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85)
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1420 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57)
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1435 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1420 | 1243 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1559 | 985 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1445 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mistral Large?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mistral Large?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mistral Large better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mistral Large share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.