# Gemma 2B vs Mixtral 8x7B

> 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-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2B leads 30.0 to 18.8.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 307 | 334 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1115 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 118.47 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | 86.7% |
| PIQA | 77.3% | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | 77.2% |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1147 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | 74.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | 87.3% |
| MMLU | 42.3% | 70.6% |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | 82.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1055 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1090 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Mixtral 8x7B?

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

### Is Gemma 2B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mixtral 8x7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.