Model Comparison

Codestral-22B vs Gemini 1.5 Flash

Codestral-22B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Codestral-22B outperforms in 1 benchmarks (HumanEval), while Gemini 1.5 Flash is better at 0 benchmarks.

Codestral-22B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$0.60
Best providerGoogle
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Gemini 1.5 Flash specifies input context (1,048,576 tokens). Only Gemini 1.5 Flash specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash
Input1,048,576 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Gemini 1.5 Flash supports multimodal inputs, whereas Codestral-22B does not.

Gemini 1.5 Flash can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Codestral-22B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Codestral-22B is licensed under MNPL-0.1, while Gemini 1.5 Flash uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Codestral-22B

MNPL-0.1

Open weights

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Codestral-22B was released on 2024-05-29, while Gemini 1.5 Flash was released on 2024-05-01.

Codestral-22B is 1 month newer than Gemini 1.5 Flash.

Codestral-22B

May 29, 2024

1.9 years ago

4w newer
Gemini 1.5 Flash

May 1, 2024

2.0 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Gemini 1.5 Flash has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-11-01, while Codestral-22B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Gemini 1.5 Flash's training data extends to 2023-11-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Codestral-22B's cutoff date.

Codestral-22B

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Gemini 1.5 Flash

Nov 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Mistral AI
Has open weights
Higher HumanEval score (81.1% vs 74.3%)
Google
Larger context window (1,048,576 tokens)
Supports multimodal inputs
Mistral AICodestral-22B
GoogleGemini 1.5 Flash
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Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash

FAQ

Common questions about Codestral-22B vs Gemini 1.5 Flash

Codestral-22B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Codestral-22B is made by Mistral AI and Gemini 1.5 Flash is made by Google. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Codestral-22B scores HumanEvalFIM-Average: 91.6%, HumanEval: 81.1%, MBPP: 78.2%, Spider: 63.5%, HumanEval-Average: 61.5%. Gemini 1.5 Flash scores XSTest: 97.0%, HellaSwag: 86.5%, GSM8k: 86.2%, BIG-Bench Hard: 85.5%, MGSM: 82.6%.
Codestral-22B supports an unknown number of tokens and Gemini 1.5 Flash supports 1.0M tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MNPL-0.1 vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Codestral-22B is developed by Mistral AI and Gemini 1.5 Flash is developed by Google.