Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Ministral 8B

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.8 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.4% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 27.1% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index56.728.2
Released2026-02-192024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$12$0.15
Results tracked7117

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding14841202
SWE-bench Verified75.6%—
DeepSWE11.7%—
LMArena WebDev1447—
SciCode58.9%—
GSO22.6%—
WeirdML72.1%—
MirrorCode8.9%—
ALE-Bench1,161—
AlgoTune2.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents35.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%
τ²-bench Banking26%—
DeepResearch Bench47.8%—
PostTrainBench22%—
BALROG57%—
ExploitBench26.1%—
GBAEval0.8%—
GDP.pdf17%—
LMArena Search1211—
METR Time Horizons77%—
Vending-Bench 23,774—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851191
DTBench97.1%45.7%
ARC-AGI-277.1%—
SimpleBench79.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198%—
CritPt17.7%—
Chess Puzzles55%—
EnigmaEval36.8%—
Thematic Generalization79.4%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
LMCA53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.77—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Math14851188
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)59.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions86.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench26%—
MATH Level 5—14.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)36.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)16.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
GPQA Diamond94.4%27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.4%7.4%
LMArena Expert14851170
Humanity's Last Exam46.4%—
SimpleQA Verified73.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Vision1296—
Blueprint-Bench 226.5%—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English14771165
LMArena Chinese15291193
LMArena Russian14981195
LMArena French1487—
LMArena German1491—
LMArena Japanese1493—
LMArena Korean1455—
LMArena Spanish1479—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following14661161

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query14831212
CL-bench20.8%—
CL-bench Life16.9%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewMinistral 8B
LMArena Text14811191
LMArena Creative Writing14821175
LMArena Multi-Turn14881166
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench 41142—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than Ministral 8B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview lists at $2 and $12.

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Ministral 8B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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