Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Mistral Small

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 27.1.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Mistral Small specifications
Gemma 7BMistral Small
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index30.033.4
Released2024-02-212024-02-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked2739

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Mistral Small leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Coding10481362
SciCode—26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Hard Prompts10421335
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99—
HellaSwag82.2%—
LiveBench—44%
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Math10661341
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
LiveBench Math—39.9%
MATH Level 5—46.8%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Mistral Small leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Expert10011291
MMLU66.1%68.7%
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Vision—1142

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Non-English9991315
LMArena Chinese10351340
LMArena French10251337
LMArena Russian9931324
LMArena German—1340
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1259
LMArena Spanish—1346

Instruction Following Mistral Small leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following10171310
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%

Long Context Mistral Small leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query10221327

Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small
LMArena Text10561338
LMArena Creative Writing10241305
LMArena Multi-Turn9631344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Mistral Small?

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or Mistral Small better for coding?

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mistral Small share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

Related comparisons

Go deeper