Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 24.0.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1448 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1414 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |
Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1447 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1411 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1440 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1403 |
Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1386 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1429 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?
Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Large 3 share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.