Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Mistral Large
Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Large leads 67.9 to 48.5.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1277 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | 59.5% |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
Reasoning Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 128.52 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 42.3% | 80% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1232 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1240 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1257 |
| LMArena French | — | 1325 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1261 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Large?
Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Large better for coding?
Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Large share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.