# Gemma 7B vs Mistral Small

> Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.6 to 27.2.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.1 |
| Rank | 295 | 238 |
| Context | — | 256K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1363 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
- Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1336 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.74 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
- Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
- Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1002 | 1293 |
| MMLU | 66.1% | 68.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 7B: —
- Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
- Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1342 |
| LMArena French | 1024 | 1337 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1324 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1260 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
- Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
- Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1304 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.