# Gemma 3 27B vs Mistral Medium 3.1

> Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 8.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-3-27b-vs-mistral-medium-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 3 27B leads 16.7 to 10.6.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 284 | 266 |
| Context | 131K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.08 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $0.16 | $2 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | — |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | 1476 |
| LMArena Text | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 3 27B better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 8.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.