Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Mistral 7B

Mistral 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 23.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral 7B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 3 1B leads 19.2 to 13.1.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and Mistral 7B specifications
Gemma 3 1BMistral 7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index21.123.0
Released2025-03-122023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked437

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
LMArena Coding—1082
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—

Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1067
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—112.21
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Gemma 3 1B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%0.3%
LMArena Math—1085
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond19.9%15.2%
LMArena Expert—1036
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English—1012
LMArena Chinese—1009
LMArena French—1037
LMArena German—987
LMArena Japanese—878
LMArena Russian—1018
LMArena Spanish—1026

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following—1060

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query—1060

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMistral 7B
LMArena Text—1090
LMArena Creative Writing—1068
LMArena Multi-Turn—1062

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 23.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Mistral 7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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