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Model comparison

Gemma 2 27B vs Mistral Nemo

Gemma 2 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 2 27B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.4

Rank #312 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Nemo in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 2 27B leads 44.2 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 27.9% for Gemma 2 27B and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.65 / $0.65 for Gemma 2 27B.
  • Mistral Nemo accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Gemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.426.4
Released2024-06-242024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window8K128K
Max output2K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.65$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.65$0.15
Results tracked3410

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
BigCodeBench Instruct42.8%—
LiveBench Coding36%—
LMArena Coding1211—
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 27B: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
DTBench48%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.08118.68
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1198—
LiveBench Data Analysis47.9%—
LMCA7.1%—
LiveBench38.2%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
MATH Level 527.9%10.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.4%—
LiveBench Math26.5%—
LMArena Math1212—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemma 2 27B leads

Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond36.5%29.9%
Confabulations27.1%—
LMArena Expert1172—
BoolQ—82.5%
MMLU75.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1217—
LMArena Chinese1221—
LMArena French1247—
LMArena German1209—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1174—
LMArena Russian1234—
LMArena Spanish1228—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
LiveBench Instruction Following58.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1206—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1231—

Writing & Preference Gemma 2 27B leads

Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1231—
LMArena Creative Writing1241—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1224—
LiveBench Language32.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 27B better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemma 2 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 2 27B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 2 27B or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemma 2 27B lists at $0.65 and $0.65.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Nemo does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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