Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Magistral Medium

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 8 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 27.2 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 63.5% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 16.2% for Magistral Medium.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B IT and Magistral Medium specifications
Gemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index43.535.2
Released2026-04-022025-03-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output33K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$5
Results tracked3522

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
SciCode43.4%39.2%
LMArena Coding14591319
LMArena WebDev1366—
WeirdML52.3%—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%16.2%
CritPt1.4%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14481267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
Chess Puzzles5%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
DTBench82.7%—
LMCA39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74—

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Math14651250
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert14651223
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), Magistral Medium: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14311232
LMArena Chinese14761227
LMArena French14351267
LMArena Russian14601224
LMArena Spanish14441271
LMArena German—1248
LMArena Japanese—1175
LMArena Korean—1125

Instruction Following Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14331254

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14461295

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Medium
LMArena Text14431255
LMArena Creative Writing14151245
LMArena Multi-Turn14521275
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Magistral Medium?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or Magistral Medium?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and Magistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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