# Gemma 2B vs Magistral Medium

> Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-magistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Magistral Medium leads 46.3 to 24.0.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 35.2 |
| Rank | 307 | 227 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $5 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1250 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1223 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1227 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1224 |
| LMArena French | — | 1267 |
| LMArena German | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1125 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1271 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1254 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1295 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1275 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Magistral Medium?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Magistral Medium share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.