# Gemma 7B vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 14.7.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 31.7 |
| Rank | 299 | 269 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.56 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1309 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1278 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 127.48 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1257 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 7B: —
- Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1253 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1273 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1263 |
| LMArena German | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1283 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1264 |
| IFEval | — | 75% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1299 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1277 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1253 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.