Model comparison
Codestral vs Gemma 1.1 2b IT
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 1.1 2b IT in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 29.3 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 16 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | 17.7% |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | 23.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1034 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1005 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1047 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 970 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 988 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1012 |
| LMArena German | — | 944 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 899 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 990 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 992 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1003 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Gemma 1.1 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1022 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 998 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 959 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Gemma 1.1 2b IT?
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codestral or Gemma 1.1 2b IT better for coding?
Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.1 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Gemma 1.1 2b IT share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16.