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Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Large 3

Google · released

Wins 7 of 7 areas

Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Facts · Images and charts · Long documents · Following instructions

Mistral · released

Wins 0 of 7 areas

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger all-rounder.Mistral Large 3 is cheaper.

Scores updated · 27 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50 to read · $3.00 to write$3.50Price from Artificial Analysis
Mistral Large 3$0.50 to read · $1.50 to write$2.00Price from Artificial Analysis

Mistral Large 3 costs 43% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Gemini 3 Flash Preview pulls ahead

  • Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+46points aheadGemini 3 Flash Preview58Mistral Large 312
  • Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+42points aheadGemini 3 Flash Preview78Mistral Large 336
  • Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+41.8points aheadGemini 3 Flash Preview78Mistral Large 336.2

Where Mistral Large 3 pulls ahead

Every test, side by side

All 27 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingGemini 3 Flash Preview

Full coding ranking

AgentsGemini 3 Flash Preview

Full agents ranking

ReasoningGemini 3 Flash Preview

Full reasoning ranking

FactsGemini 3 Flash Preview

Full facts ranking

Images and chartsGemini 3 Flash Preview
  • MMMU-ProGemini 3 Flash Preview by 24.279.955.7+24.2
  • LMArena · VisionGemini 3 Flash Preview by 63 rating points12851222+63 rating

Full images and charts ranking

Long documentsGemini 3 Flash Preview
  • AA-LCRGemini 3 Flash Preview by 427836+42

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsGemini 3 Flash Preview
  • IFBenchGemini 3 Flash Preview by 41.87836.2+41.8

Full following instructions ranking

Other results10 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Mistral Large 3?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins all seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, facts, images and charts, long documents and following instructions. Mistral Large 3 wins none, but costs 43% less.

Which is better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview. It wins 4 of the 4 coding tests both models report; Mistral Large 3 wins none.

Which is cheaper?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 costs $0.50 and $1.50. That makes Mistral Large 3 about 43% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 27 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 17 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.