# Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-lite-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 11.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 32K.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 133 | 334 |
| Context | 1.05M | 32K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $2.50 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1126 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | — |
| SciCode | 41.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 39% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 765.27 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107)
- Mixtral 8x7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 29.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1441 | 1115 |
| DTBench | 83.5% | 49.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.13 | 118.47 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 10.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 60.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 53.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 22% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| LMCA | 37.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1433 | 1147 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 26% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 13% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.3% | 30.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1435 | 1088 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40)
- Mixtral 8x7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1268 | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1469 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1451 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1454 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1427 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1443 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1442 | 1111 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1420 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1435 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1420 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1445 | 1115 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1559 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

### Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 32K.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mixtral 8x7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.