Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Mistral Nemo

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 74% for Gemma 3 27B and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.15 for Mistral Nemo.
  • Gemma 3 27B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index30.826.4
Released2025-03-112024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K128K
Max output8K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.08$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.16$0.15
Results tracked4310

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
DTBench52.5%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04118.68
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1340—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
LiveBench50%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Too close to call

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
MATH Level 574%10.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
LMArena Math1312—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond47.7%29.9%
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1304—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1334—
LMArena Chinese1346—
LMArena French1368—
LMArena German1362—
LMArena Japanese1287—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1349—
LMArena Spanish1349—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1321—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1333—

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266881
LMArena Text1358—
LMArena Creative Writing1346—
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1345—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Mistral Nemo?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Mistral Nemo lists at $0.15 and $0.15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 3 27B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Nemo share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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