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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Magistral Medium

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

34.8

Rank #224 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.9 to 8.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 91.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 6.1% for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.134.8
Released2026-07-212025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$5
Results tracked4622

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
SciCode52.7%39.2%
LMArena Coding14921319
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
WeirdML56.1%—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
ARC-AGI-260.4%0%
ARC-AGI-191.2%6.1%
CritPt10.6%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14861267
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Math15041249
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert14891222
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14701232
LMArena Chinese15301225
LMArena French15011268
LMArena German14781248
LMArena Japanese14771176
LMArena Korean14351125
LMArena Russian14901224
LMArena Spanish14771269

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14671254

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14751295

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Text14781255
LMArena Creative Writing14641245
LMArena Multi-Turn14811275
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.6 versus 38.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Magistral Medium share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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