# Gemma 7B vs Ministral 8B

> Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 8B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 7B leads 27.3 to 12.6.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 28.2 |
| Rank | 299 | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1202 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1170 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1161 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Ministral 8B?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Ministral 8B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.