# Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mistral Medium

> Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-lite-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 27

## Summary

- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Medium in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 25.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 133 | 218 |
| Context | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $2.50 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 41.3% | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | 39% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | 765.27 | 763.98 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107)
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 29.3% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1441 | 1426 |
| DTBench | 83.5% | 75.5% |
| LMCA | 37.6% | 26.1% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 10.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 60.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 53.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 22% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.13 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | 13% | 9% |
| LMArena Math | 1433 | 1408 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 26% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.3% | 59.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1435 | 1408 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40)
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1268 | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1469 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1451 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1454 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1427 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1443 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1442 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1420 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1435 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1420 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1445 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1559 | — |

## FAQ

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.