# Gemma 2B vs Mistral Large

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Large leads 67.9 to 48.5.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 307 | 263 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1277 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | 59.5% |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 128.52 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 42.3% | 80% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1232 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1240 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1257 |
| LMArena French | — | 1325 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.