Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Mistral Small 3.2
Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 45.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.0938 / $0.25 for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 256K |
| Max output | 8K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 43 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | 131.74 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Too close to call
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | 30.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | 49.1% |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | 1255 |
| LMArena Text | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Mistral Small 3.2?
Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.2 lists at $0.0938 and $0.25.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.