Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Mistral Medium 3.1

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 27.2 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 70.6% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 6.5% for Mistral Medium 3.1.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B IT and Mistral Medium 3.1 specifications
Gemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index43.531.9
Released2026-04-02—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K131K
Max output33K105K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$2
Results tracked353

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena WebDev1366—
SciCode43.4%—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1459—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%6.5%
Thematic Generalization53%20.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1448—
DTBench82.7%—
LMCA39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74—

Math Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—
LMArena Math1465—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1476—
LMArena French1435—
LMArena Russian1460—
LMArena Spanish1444—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITMistral Medium 3.1
EQ-Bench Creative Writing13681476
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1415—
EQ-Bench 41120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1452—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 31B IT does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.

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