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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Magistral Medium

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Magistral Medium in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 46.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 67.2% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 16.2% for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index40.835.2
Released2026-03-032025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$5
Results tracked3822

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
SciCode41.9%39.2%
LMArena Coding14001319
LMArena WebDev1256—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%16.2%
CritPt1.1%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Math14281250
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert13981223
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14111232
LMArena Chinese14611227
LMArena French14241267
LMArena German14291248
LMArena Japanese14131175
LMArena Korean13921125
LMArena Russian14201224
LMArena Spanish14211271

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following13771254

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query13941295

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMagistral Medium
LMArena Text14161255
LMArena Creative Writing14011245
LMArena Multi-Turn14171275

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Magistral Medium share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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