Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Mistral Small 3
Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 16.3.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 127.07 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1240 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1202 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1216 |
| LMArena German | — | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1214 |
Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1246 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3 leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1217 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mistral Small 3 share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.