Gemini 1.5 Flash vs Mistral NeMo Instruct Comparison

Comparing Gemini 1.5 Flash and Mistral NeMo Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

2 benchmarks

Gemini 1.5 Flash outperforms in 2 benchmarks (HellaSwag, MMLU), while Mistral NeMo Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Mistral NeMo Instruct costs less

For input processing, Gemini 1.5 Flash ($0.15/1M tokens) costs the same as Mistral NeMo Instruct ($0.15/1M tokens).

For output processing, Gemini 1.5 Flash ($0.60/1M tokens) is 4.0x more expensive than Mistral NeMo Instruct ($0.15/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Gemini 1.5 Flash is more expensive than Mistral NeMo Instruct.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Gemini 1.5 Flash

Input tokens$0.15

Output tokens$0.60

Best providerGoogle

Mistral NeMo Instruct

Input tokens$0.15

Output tokens$0.15

Best providerGoogle

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Gemini 1.5 Flash accepts 1,048,576 input tokens compared to Mistral NeMo Instruct's 128,000 tokens. Mistral NeMo Instruct can generate longer responses up to 128,000 tokens, while Gemini 1.5 Flash is limited to 8,192 tokens.

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Input1,048,576 tokens

Output8,192 tokens

Mistral NeMo Instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Gemini 1.5 Flash supports multimodal inputs, whereas Mistral NeMo Instruct does not.

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Mistral NeMo Instruct

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Gemini 1.5 Flash is licensed under a proprietary license, while Mistral NeMo Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Proprietary

Closed source

Mistral NeMo Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Gemini 1.5 Flash was released on 2024-05-01, while Mistral NeMo Instruct was released on 2024-07-18.

Mistral NeMo Instruct is 3 months newer than Gemini 1.5 Flash.

Gemini 1.5 Flash

May 1, 2024

1.9 years ago

Mistral NeMo Instruct

Jul 18, 2024

1.7 years ago

2mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Gemini 1.5 Flash has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-11-01, while Mistral NeMo Instruct'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 Mistral NeMo Instruct's cutoff date.

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Nov 2023

Mistral NeMo Instruct

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Provider Availability

Gemini 1.5 Flash is available from Google. Mistral NeMo Instruct is available from Google, Mistral AI. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.