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Gemini 2.5 FlashvsMinistral 3 8B
Ministral 3 8B leads 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. Ministral 3 8B is 9.3x cheaper per token. Gemini 2.5 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 2
Ministral 3 8B leads
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 8B
9.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 2.5 Flash
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Google · Mistral AI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google · released 2025-06-17
textvisionaudio
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 5 only Gemini 2.5 Flash · 0 only Ministral 3 8B| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Ministral 3 8B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 82.8% ↗ | 66.8% ↗ | +16 pt | Gemini 2.5 Flash |
| AIME 2025 | 72% ↗ | 78.7% ↗ | -6.7 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| LiveCodeBench | 59.3% ↗ | 61.6% ↗ | -2.3 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| Only Gemini 2.5 Flash reports · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 48.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 11% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1417.3 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 56.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU | 79.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 0 | ||||
| Ministral 3 8B reports nothing Gemini 2.5 Flash does not. | ||||
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 2.5 Flash minus Ministral 3 8B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Ministral 3 8B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 256K tokens | Gemini 2.5 Flash |
| Max output | 66K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Output price / 1M | $2.5 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 ↗ | $0.015 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.8 | $0.3 | Ministral 3 8B |
| Modalities | text · vision · audio | text · vision | Gemini 2.5 Flash |
| Released | 2025-06-17 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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