Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Pixtral Large

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

32.2

Rank #259 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Pixtral Large in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.8 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is EnigmaEval: 25.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 0.8% for Pixtral Large.
  • Pixtral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Pixtral Large specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.232.2
Released2026-05-192024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$2
Output $ / M tokens$9$6
Results tracked543

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Pixtral Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Pixtral Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
EnigmaEval25.4%0.8%
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Vision13101089
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Pixtral Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Non-English1476—
LMArena Chinese1526—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1492—
LMArena Japanese1486—
LMArena Korean1451—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1480—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Pixtral Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Pixtral Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—988
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Pixtral Large?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Pixtral Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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