Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Mistral Small 3.1

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 14.7.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index56.531.7
Released2026-09-302025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked2128

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding15501309
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Mistral Small 3.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Hard Prompts15481278
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.48

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Math15361262
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—3.9%
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—24.8%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Expert15531257
GPQA Diamond—41.9%
MMLU-Pro—61%
GPQA (HELM)—39.2%

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision—1136
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English15231255
LMArena Chinese16101253
LMArena Russian15371263
LMArena Spanish14971283
LMArena French—1273
LMArena German—1266
LMArena Japanese—1208
LMArena Korean—1206

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following15381264
IFEval—75%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query15491299

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text15341277
LMArena Creative Writing15311253
LMArena Multi-Turn15571270
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—761
WildBench—78.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 38.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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