Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B 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 knowledge, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 40.0 to 9.7.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index25.940.2
Released2024-06-24—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—210K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked3522

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding11731461
LMArena WebDev—1264
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts11711436
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83141.35
Kagi LLM Benchmark—41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—12.9%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math11831431
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert11471432
GPQA Diamond27.5%—
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision—1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English11881404
LMArena Chinese11851442
LMArena French11901448
LMArena German11861451
LMArena Korean11371385
LMArena Russian12001395
LMArena Spanish12001409
LMArena Japanese1144—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following11781415
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query11971415

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text12071421
LMArena Creative Writing12061374
LMArena Multi-Turn11931423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
EQ-Bench 4—993
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.

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