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Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.8 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 74.8 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 95.4% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index61.826.2
Released2026-09-022024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.10
Results tracked506

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
LMArena Coding1510—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
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), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
DTBench95.7%51.7%
LMCA52.9%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71118.1
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt18.3%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond95.4%25.3%
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1524—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1314—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1491—
LMArena Chinese1554—
LMArena French1498—
LMArena German1493—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Russian1515—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1490—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1508—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1499—
LMArena Creative Writing1492—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1501—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.8 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.8 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.8 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Ministral 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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