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Model comparison

Gemma 2 27B vs Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.2

Rank #302 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

30.9

Rank #268 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 2 27B leads 44.4 to 32.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 36.5% for Gemma 2 27B and 47.3% for Mistral Small 3.
  • Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.65 / $0.65 for Gemma 2 27B.
  • Mistral Small 3 accepts more context: 33K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Gemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.230.9
Released2024-06-242025-01-30
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window8K33K
Max output2K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.65$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$0.65$0.08
Results tracked3424

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243), Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
BigCodeBench Instruct42.8%45.3%
LMArena Coding12111246
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%50.4%
LiveBench Coding36%—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313), Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
LMArena Hard Prompts11991233
Epoch Capabilities Index122.06127.06
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
DTBench48%—
LiveBench Data Analysis47.9%—
LMCA7.1%—
LiveBench38.2%—

Math Mistral Small 3 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306), Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.4%6.7%
LMArena Math12121240
LiveBench Math26.5%—
MATH Level 527.9%—

Knowledge Mistral Small 3 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275), Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
GPQA Diamond36.5%47.3%
Confabulations27.1%25.2%
LMArena Expert11721202
MMLU75.7%—

Multilingual Gemma 2 27B leads

Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221), Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English12171198
LMArena Chinese12211204
LMArena French12461202
LMArena German12091211
LMArena Japanese11751111
LMArena Korean11741188
LMArena Russian12341216
LMArena Spanish1228—

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads

Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244), Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following12061214
LiveBench Instruction Following58.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query12311246

Writing & Preference Gemma 2 27B leads

Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220), Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275)

BenchmarkGemma 2 27BMistral Small 3
LMArena Text12311234
LMArena Creative Writing12411195
LMArena Multi-Turn12241217
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—707
LiveBench Language32.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 27B better than Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 2 27B or Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Gemma 2 27B lists at $0.65 and $0.65.

Is Gemma 2 27B or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small 3 does, with 33K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 27B and Mistral Small 3 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.

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