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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Magistral Medium

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

34.8

Rank #224 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Magistral Medium in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 21.5 to 8.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 40.5% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 16.2% for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index36.434.8
Released2025-06-172025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$5
Results tracked3322

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Coding13731319
SciCode—39.2%
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%16.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13771267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
CritPt—0.3%
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Math13731249
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert13731222
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English13691232
LMArena Chinese14041225
LMArena French13881268
LMArena German13901248
LMArena Japanese13591176
LMArena Korean13581125
LMArena Russian13731224
LMArena Spanish13961269

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following13661254
IFEval81%—

Long Context Magistral Medium leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query13731295
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Text13791255
LMArena Creative Writing13661245
LMArena Multi-Turn13671275
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Magistral Medium?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Magistral Medium?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Magistral Medium better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.0 vs 38.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Magistral Medium share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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