# Gemma 2B vs Mistral Large 3

> Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-mistral-large-3
- 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 Mistral Large 3 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 24.0.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 307 | 176 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.75 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1448 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| 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)
- Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1414 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1447 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1411 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1440 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1403 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1413 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1386 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1429 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Large 3 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.