Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs Magistral Small

Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

28.8

Rank #313 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads 18.2 to 6.9.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b IT and Magistral Small specifications
Gemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index28.829.9
Released—2025-06-10
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked1610

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 29.6 (#294), Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
LMArena Coding1034—
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Reasoning Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 18.2 (#268), Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1005—
DTBench—61.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—133.19

Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 28.3 (#230), Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30%
LMArena Math1047—

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.0 (#255), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
LMArena Expert970—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.7 (#284), Magistral Small: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English988—
LMArena Chinese1011—
LMArena German944—
LMArena Korean899—
LMArena Russian990—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 50.1 (#294), Magistral Small: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following992—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.5 (#281), Magistral Small: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1003—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.3 (#301), Magistral Small: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMagistral Small
LMArena Text1022—
LMArena Creative Writing998—
LMArena Multi-Turn958—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than Magistral Small?

Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or Magistral Small better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and Magistral Small share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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