Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Mistral

Gemma 7B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 7B leads 27.3 to 16.6.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Mistral specifications
Gemma 7BMistral
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index30.029.9
Released2024-02-21—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2722

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Category by category

Coding Mistral leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Coding10481162
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Reasoning Mistral leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Hard Prompts10421149
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Math10661180
Omni-MATH—7.2%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Expert10011125
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Mistral leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Non-English9991129
LMArena Chinese10351109
LMArena French10251180
LMArena Russian9931168
LMArena German—1155
LMArena Japanese—1013
LMArena Korean—1032
LMArena Spanish—1143

Instruction Following Mistral leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Instruction Following10171152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context Mistral leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Longer Query10221153

Writing & Preference Mistral leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral
LMArena Text10561165
LMArena Creative Writing10241158
LMArena Multi-Turn9631147
WildBench—66%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Mistral?

Gemma 7B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 7B or Mistral better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mistral share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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