Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Pixtral Large

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

32.2

Rank #259 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 21.7.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.132.2
Released2026-07-212024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$6
Results tracked463

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Vision12981089
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Non-English1469—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1504—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1476—
LMArena Korean1431—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1475—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Pixtral Large: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashPixtral Large
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604988
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Pixtral Large?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Pixtral Large?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

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 Pixtral Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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