# Gemma 7B vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 7B leads 27.3 to 15.1.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 299 | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1166 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | 64.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1150 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 122.03 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 66.1% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1166 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1158 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemma 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.