Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.1 to 27.2.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Gemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.530.8
Released2024-02-212025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked276

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Coding1048—
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
Epoch Capabilities Index111.74131.73
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1042—
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
LMArena Math1066—
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
LMArena Expert1002—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English999—
LMArena Chinese1035—
LMArena French1024—
LMArena Russian993—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following1017—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1022—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1056—
LMArena Creative Writing1024—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
LMArena Multi-Turn963—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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