Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Magistral Medium
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.1 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 5 categories and Magistral Medium in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Medium leads 39.1 to 28.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 37.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 16.2% for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1319 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 16.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1267 |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1250 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1254 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1295 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1275 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Magistral Medium?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.1 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Magistral Medium share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.