Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Mistral Small 3
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.9 to 32.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 6.7% for Mistral Small 3.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | 45.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 50.4% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | 127.06 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1240 |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 47.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1202 |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1257 | 1202 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1214 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1246 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1217 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Mistral Small 3?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Mistral Small 3 share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.