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Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 vs Mistral Small 3

Google Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 vs Mistral Mistral Small 3 — side-by-side specs.

Google
Gemini 1.5 Pro-002
Mistral
Mistral Small 3
Overview
CompanyGoogleMistral
Release dateSep 24 2024Jan 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGemini 1.5 Pro-002 shipped 99 days before Mistral Small 3

Which is better: Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 or Mistral Small 3?

Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 and Mistral Small 3 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 shipped 99 days before Mistral Small 3, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Small 3 is an open-source / open-weight model; Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 released?
Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 was released by Google on Sep 24 2024.
When was Mistral Small 3 released?
Mistral Small 3 was released by Mistral on Jan 2025.
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 or Mistral Small 3 open source?
Mistral Small 3 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 is a proprietary model released by Google.

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