Model comparison
Gemma 2 2b IT vs Mistral 7B
Gemma 2 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 2b IT scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2 2b IT leads 32.6 to 8.1.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 23.0 |
| Released | — | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#273), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 21.4 (#224), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.6 (#212), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1135 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.9 (#231), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1096 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#257), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1121 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1132 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1157 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1114 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1083 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1118 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1140 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1055 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 57.8 (#263), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1118 | 1060 |
Long Context Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.3 (#250), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1130 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.5 (#263), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1156 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1147 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1118 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 2b IT better than Mistral 7B?
Gemma 2 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2 2b IT or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Gemma 2 2b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 2b IT and Mistral 7B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 2b IT has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.