Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Mistral Small 3.1
Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.1 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 41.2 to 23.0.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 31.7 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 102K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.56 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1309 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1278 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 127.48 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1257 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1253 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1263 |
| LMArena French | — | 1273 |
| LMArena German | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1283 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1264 |
| IFEval | — | 75% |
Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1299 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1277 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1253 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Small 3.1?
Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Small 3.1 share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.