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Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs Mixtral 8x7B

Gemma 3 4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 6 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemma 3 4B leads 65.2 to 51.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Gemma 3 4B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

Gemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index28.127.1
Released2025-03-122023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K32K
Max output4K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.04$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.08$0.70
Results tracked2238

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding12301126
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard19.6%—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12531115
DTBench50.9%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index116.02118.47
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMCA2.8%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math12391147
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.5%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond23.2%30.6%
LMArena Expert12231088
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12731077
LMArena German12811114
LMArena Russian12941090
LMArena Chinese—1055
LMArena French—1166
LMArena Japanese—931
LMArena Korean—968
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following12391109
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12731103

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12911132
LMArena Creative Writing12711109
LMArena Multi-Turn12551115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1068—
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemma 3 4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Gemma 3 4B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 3 4B does, with 131K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Mixtral 8x7B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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