Model comparison

Codestral vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Codestral costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.7 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.0 to 19.8.
  • Codestral is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Codestral and Gemini 3.7 Flash specifications
CodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
ProviderMistral AIGoogle
Noometry Index30.659.8
Released2024-05-292026-08-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window256K1.05M
Max output8K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$0.90$3.75
Results tracked744

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
ALE-Bench137.78904.3
DeepSWE—65.5%
FrontierCode—43.6%
Aider Polyglot11.1%—
LMArena WebDev—1592
FrontierSWE—20.3%
SciCode—59.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct41.8%—
LMArena Coding—1497
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%—
HumanEval+73.8%—
MBPP+61.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
APEX-Agents—67.8%
Remote Labor Index—5%
GDP.pdf—23.8%

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
ARC-AGI-2—84.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark32.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—94%
ARC-AGI-1—95.5%
CritPt—14.3%
Chess Puzzles—47%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1494
Mystery Game Puzzles—37%
DTBench—96.8%
LMCA—50.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—157.27

Math Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—71.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—36.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.2%
ProofBench—58%
LMArena Math—1507

Knowledge Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond—94.8%
SimpleQA Verified—69.2%
LMArena Expert—1508

Multimodal Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision—1316
Furniture Assembly—26.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Non-English—1484
LMArena Chinese—1548
LMArena French—1505
LMArena German—1498
LMArena Japanese—1512
LMArena Korean—1483
LMArena Russian—1516
LMArena Spanish—1503

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following—1483

Long Context Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1492

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codestral: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralGemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text—1486
LMArena Creative Writing—1490
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1723
LMArena Multi-Turn—1489

Frequently asked questions

Is Codestral better than Gemini 3.7 Flash?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Codestral costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Codestral or Gemini 3.7 Flash?

Codestral is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Codestral or Gemini 3.7 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.2 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Codestral and Gemini 3.7 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44.

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