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Gemini 3 Flash PreviewvsMinistral 3 8B
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Google · Mistral AI
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Google · released 2025-12-17
textvisionaudio
- Context
- 1.0M
- Max out
- 66K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 13 · 9 core
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 9 only Gemini 3 Flash Preview · 1 only Ministral 3 8B| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Ministral 3 8B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.4% ↗ | 66.8% ↗ | +23.6 pt | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| AIME 2025 | 95.2% ↗ | 78.7% ↗ | +16.5 pt | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview reports · 9 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 78% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 33.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 17.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 51.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 81.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 95.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 68.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 75.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 47.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 1 | ||||
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 61.6% ↗ | — | — |
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 3 Flash Preview 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 3 Flash Preview | Ministral 3 8B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 256K tokens | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Max output | 66K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.15 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $0.15 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.015 ↗ | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $0.3 | — |
| Modalities | text · vision · audio | text · vision | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Released | 2025-12-17 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 13 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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