# Gemma 3 27B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-3-27b-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 43.2 to 27.6.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 277 | 151 |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.08 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.16 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1461 |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | 41.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | 141.42 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1432 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1303 | 1431 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1165 | 1222 |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | 1443 |
| LMArena French | 1368 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1362 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1348 | 1406 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1414 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 1414 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 1372 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1423 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 3 27B better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Gemma 3 27B or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.