Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 24.0.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1447 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1411 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1398 |
Long Context Mistral Medium leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Medium better for coding?
Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Medium share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.