# Gemma 2B vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 36.9 to 24.0.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 307 | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1166 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | 64.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1150 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 122.03 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 42.3% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1116 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1158 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemma 2B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.