Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 26.6.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 Argon and Ministral 3B specifications
Gemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index56.526.2
Released2026-09-302024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked216

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
LMArena Coding1550—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Ministral 3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
CritPt27.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1548—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.1

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1536—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1553—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1523—
LMArena Chinese1610—
LMArena Russian1537—
LMArena Spanish1497—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1538—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1549—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1534—
LMArena Creative Writing1531—
LMArena Multi-Turn1557—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Ministral 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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