Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Mistral
Gemma 3 27B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemma 3 27B leads 70.6 to 52.6.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1162 |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1149 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1368 | 1180 |
| LMArena German | 1362 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1152 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
Long Context Mistral leads
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 1153 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | 1147 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Mistral?
Gemma 3 27B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Mistral better for coding?
Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Mistral share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.