Model comparison
Gemma 2 27B vs Mistral
Gemma 2 27B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral leads 20.5 to 10.0.
- Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 27B | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 8K | — |
| Max output | 2K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243), Mistral: 33.2 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1211 | 1162 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313), Mistral: 21.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1199 | 1149 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 48% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 47.9% | — |
| LMCA | 7.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.06 | — |
| LiveBench | 38.2% | — |
Math Mistral leads
Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306), Mistral: 20.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1212 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 26.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 27.9% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 2 27B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275), Mistral: 16.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1172 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| Confabulations | 27.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| MMLU | 75.7% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 2 27B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221), Mistral: 33.0 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1217 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1221 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1246 | 1179 |
| LMArena German | 1209 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1012 |
| LMArena Korean | 1174 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1234 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1228 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Gemma 2 27B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244), Mistral: 52.9 (#283)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1206 | 1152 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.1% | — |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
Long Context Gemma 2 27B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213), Mistral: 35.0 (#240)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1154 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 2 27B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220), Mistral: 37.2 (#255)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1231 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1241 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1224 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
| LiveBench Language | 32.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 27B better than Mistral?
Gemma 2 27B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 2 27B or Mistral better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.5 vs 33.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 27B and Mistral share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.