Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs Ministral 3B

Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2B leads 30.0 to 26.6.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and Ministral 3B specifications
Gemma 2BMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.626.2
Released2024-02-212024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked236

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
LMArena Coding1010—
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2118.1
LMArena Hard Prompts989—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
LMArena Math1009—
MATH Level 5—14.4%
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English958—
LMArena Chinese986—
LMArena Russian937—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following970—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query981—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1002—
LMArena Creative Writing987—
LMArena Multi-Turn945—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than Ministral 3B?

Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Ministral 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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