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Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Pixtral 12B

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#13); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

59.5

Rank #13 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

30.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral 12B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 40.9 to 23.4.
  • Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 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 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index59.530.8
Released2026-09-022024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.15
Results tracked462

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 56.4 (#17), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1581—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
LMArena Coding1512—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.3 (#22), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 64.7 (#13), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
CritPt18.3%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1506—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.13—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.2 (#22), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.9 (#2), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
GPQA Diamond95.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
LMArena Expert1529—

Multimodal Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.9 (#33), Pixtral 12B: 23.4 (#122)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Vision13121008
GeoBench—37%
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 57.9 (#5), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Non-English1486—
LMArena Chinese1547—
LMArena French1502—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1505—
LMArena Korean1479—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1492—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.2 (#11), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1489—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.2 (#23), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1506—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.1 (#16), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashPixtral 12B
LMArena Text1494—
LMArena Creative Writing1485—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1503—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Pixtral 12B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#13); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Pixtral 12B?

Pixtral 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 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 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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