Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs Mistral Small 3.1

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.7 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

30.7

Rank #275 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.4

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads 29.5 to 13.7.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Mistral Small 3.1 specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index30.731.4
Released—2025-03-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked1928

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.0 (#279), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding10841309
HumanEval+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 19.6 (#235), Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Hard Prompts10711278
Chess Puzzles—1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.48

Math Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 29.5 (#217), Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Math11071261
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—3.9%
Omni-MATH—24.8%

Knowledge Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 27.8 (#242), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Expert10391258
GPQA Diamond—41.9%
MMLU-Pro—61%
GPQA (HELM)—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision—1136

Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#268), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English10521255
LMArena Chinese10601254
LMArena French10641270
LMArena German10541266
LMArena Japanese9711210
LMArena Korean9881206
LMArena Russian10461263
LMArena Spanish10491283

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.3 (#278), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.8 (#225)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following10571264
IFEval—75%

Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#267), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query10561300

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.6 (#283), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text10941278
LMArena Creative Writing10591253
LMArena Multi-Turn10401270
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—761
WildBench—78.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.7 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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