Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Mixtral 8x22B

Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.7 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

20.7

Rank #348 Reported

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

26.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 21.2 to 9.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B and 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
Gemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index20.726.7
Released2025-03-122024-04-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked434

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
LMArena Coding—1166
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Mixtral 8x22B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.5 (#144), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 3 1B: 18.5 (#260), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1150
DTBench—55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122
ForecastBench—56.3

Math Mixtral 8x22B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 9.6 (#310), Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
Omni-MATH—16.3%
LMArena Math—1184
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Mixtral 8x22B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.1 (#309), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond19.9%34.1%
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
LMArena Expert—1113
MMLU—77.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English—1128
LMArena Chinese—1116
LMArena French—1165
LMArena German—1141
LMArena Japanese—1037
LMArena Korean—1056
LMArena Russian—1158
LMArena Spanish—1150

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
IFEval—72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1147

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query—1144

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text—1162
LMArena Creative Writing—1141
WildBench—71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1130

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.7 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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