Model comparison
Gemini 3 Pro vs Mistral Small
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.
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- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 10 categories and Mistral Small in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 48.8 to 15.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 5.8% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 54.7 | 33.1 |
| Released | 2025-11-18 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 67 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1482 | 1363 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | 497.62 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1439 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| GSO | 18.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | 37.1% |
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | — |
| GDPval | 40.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 80.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 18% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 75.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.3% | — |
| BALROG | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | 37.8% |
| CritPt | 6.9% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1336 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.96 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | 5.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1475 | 1341 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | — |
| ProofBench | 20% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 55.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 37.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | 1293 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | — |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | 1142 |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1522 | 1342 |
| LMArena French | 1492 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1517 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1513 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 1449 | 1260 |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | 1346 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1472 | 1327 |
| CL-bench | 15.8% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | 1304 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | 1344 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | — |
| WildBench | 85.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Mistral Small?
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Pro or Mistral Small better for coding?
Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Mistral Small share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.