Model comparison

Gemma 2 27B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 2 27B costs 4.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 27B

Google

29.4

Rank #312 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 39.1 to 10.7.
Gemma 2 27B is cheaper at $0.65 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Gemma 2 27B and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider	Google	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	29.4	40.2
Released	2024-06-24	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	8K	262K
Max output	2K	210K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.65	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$0.65	$7.50
Results tracked	34	22

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding	1211	1461
LMArena WebDev	—	1264
BigCodeBench Instruct	42.8%	—
LiveBench Coding	36%	—
BigCodeBench Complete	52.5%	—

Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts	1198	1436
Epoch Capabilities Index	122.08	141.35
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)	—	12.9%
LiveBench Reasoning	28.1%	—
DTBench	48%	—
LiveBench Data Analysis	47.9%	—
LMCA	7.1%	—
LiveBench	38.2%	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math	1212	1431
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	1.4%	—
LiveBench Math	26.5%	—
MATH Level 5	27.9%	—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert	1172	1432
GPQA Diamond	36.5%	—
Confabulations	27.1%	—
MMLU	75.7%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 27B: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision	—	1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English	1217	1404
LMArena Chinese	1221	1442
LMArena French	1247	1448
LMArena German	1209	1451
LMArena Korean	1174	1385
LMArena Russian	1234	1395
LMArena Spanish	1228	1409
LMArena Japanese	1175	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1206	1415
LiveBench Instruction Following	58.1%	—

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query	1231	1415

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 27B	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text	1231	1421
LMArena Creative Writing	1241	1374
LMArena Multi-Turn	1224	1423
EQ-Bench 4	—	993
LiveBench Language	32.6%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 27B better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Which is cheaper, Gemma 2 27B or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemma 2 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.65 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Gemma 2 27B or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 27B and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.