Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Magistral Small
Gemma 3 27B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Small leads 38.4 to 22.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 40.4% for Gemma 3 27B and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
- Gemma 3 27B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 43 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 21.2% | 35.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | 6.3% |
| CritPt | 0% | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 3% |
| DTBench | 52.5% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Too close to call
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | 30% |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | — |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Magistral Small?
Gemma 3 27B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Magistral Small?
Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemma 3 27B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Magistral Small share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.