Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 12B vs Mistral 7B

Gemma 3 12B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 12B Google

32.1

Rank #262 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 12B scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 3 12B leads 45.7 to 25.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 39.5% for Gemma 3 12B and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.
  • Gemma 3 12B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
  • Gemma 3 12B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Gemma 3 12BMistral 7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index32.123.0
Released2025-03-122023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K8K
Max output8K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.15$0.25
Results tracked2437

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
LMArena Coding12811082
SciCode17.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard30.4%—

Reasoning Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts13091067
DTBench48.8%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index123.5112.21
CritPt0%—
LMCA4.5%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.7%0.3%
LMArena Math13071085
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond39.5%15.2%
LMArena Expert12481036
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: —, Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
MindCube46.7%—

Multilingual Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English13181012
LMArena German1370987
LMArena Russian13351018
LMArena Chinese—1009
LMArena French—1037
LMArena Japanese—878
LMArena Spanish—1026

Instruction Following Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following12991060

Long Context Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query13171060

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 12B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BMistral 7B
LMArena Text13341090
LMArena Creative Writing13311068
LMArena Multi-Turn13341062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1126—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 12B better than Mistral 7B?

Gemma 3 12B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 12B or Mistral 7B?

Gemma 3 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

Is Gemma 3 12B or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Gemma 3 12B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 3 12B does, with 131K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and Mistral 7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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