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Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Magistral Small

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 4 categories and Magistral Small in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 27.2 to 6.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 63.5% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index43.530.2
Released2026-04-022025-06-10
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output33K40K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$1.50
Results tracked3510

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
SciCode43.4%35.2%
LMArena WebDev1366—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1459—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%6.3%
CritPt1.4%0.3%
Chess Puzzles5%3%
DTBench82.7%61.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74133.19
ARC-AGI-2—0%
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
ARC-AGI-1—5%
Thematic Generalization53%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1448—
LMCA39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%30%
LMArena Math1465—

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond75.8%56.1%
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1476—
LMArena French1435—
LMArena Russian1460—
LMArena Spanish1444—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), Magistral Small: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMagistral Small
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1415—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1452—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Magistral Small?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.

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

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 31B IT does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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