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Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Magistral Medium

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 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 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 98.5% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 6.1% for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index61.835.2
Released2026-09-022025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$5
Results tracked5022

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
SciCode56.6%39.2%
LMArena Coding15101319
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Remote Labor Index5.8%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
ARC-AGI-289.2%0%
ARC-AGI-198.5%6.1%
CritPt18.3%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081267
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71—

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Math15281250
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert15241223
GPQA Diamond95.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1314—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14911232
LMArena Chinese15541227
LMArena French14981267
LMArena German14931248
LMArena Japanese15021175
LMArena Korean14591125
LMArena Russian15151224
LMArena Spanish14851271

Instruction Following Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14901254

Long Context Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query15081295

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMagistral Medium
LMArena Text14991255
LMArena Creative Writing14921245
LMArena Multi-Turn15011275
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Magistral Medium?

Gemini 3.8 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 3.8 Flash or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.2 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.8 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Magistral Medium share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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