# Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-6-flash-vs-mistral-medium-3-5-128b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.6 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.6 Flash leads overall 70.11 to 48.95.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 82.3 for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 55.4 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond (Vals) in Knowledge, with scores of 93.4% and 34.8%.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Mistral |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 70.11 | 48.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $7.50 | $1.50 / $7.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Gemini 3.6 Flash
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 50.7 (Supported · #60/151)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 27.5 (Supported · #141/151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OSWorld-Verified | 83% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 73.8% | 39.0% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 39.10% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 58.9 (Supported · #30/183)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 41.1 (Estimated · #136/183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| deepSwe | 49% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | 66.4% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 82.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 55.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 77.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 68 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Gemini 3.6 Flash
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 68.6 (Supported · #18/181)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 42 (Supported · #131/181)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | 34.8% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.3% | 75.3% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 83.7 (#47/120)

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 82.3 for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 55.4 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.6 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.6 Flash currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Mistral Medium 3.5 128B cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Mistral Medium 3.5 128B vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-mistral-medium-3-5-128b)

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