# Gemma 2B vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.1 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 41.2 to 23.0.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 31.7 |
| Rank | 307 | 269 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.56 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1309 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1278 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 127.48 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1257 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1253 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1263 |
| LMArena French | — | 1273 |
| LMArena German | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1283 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1264 |
| IFEval | — | 75% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1299 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1277 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1253 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.