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Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Ministral 3B

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 3.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 4 31B IT's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.2

Rank #85 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 37.9 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 75.8% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.09 / $0.34 for Gemma 4 31B IT.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index43.225.6
Released2026-04-022024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$0.04
Results tracked356

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.9 (#98), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
LMArena WebDev1364—
SciCode43.4%—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1459—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 26.4 (#119), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
DTBench82.7%51.7%
LMCA39.3%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74118.08
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1448—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.3 (#72), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—
LMArena Math1464—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#141), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond75.8%25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%7.3%
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.0 (#32), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1278—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 54.0 (#52), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1478—
LMArena French1436—
LMArena Russian1462—
LMArena Spanish1443—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.6 (#58), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#67), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.7 (#92), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1416—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1452—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Ministral 3B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 3.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 4 31B IT's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Gemma 4 31B IT lists at $0.09 and $0.34.

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 Ministral 3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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