# Gemma 7B vs Mixtral 8x7B

> 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-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 4 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 7B leads 27.3 to 11.0.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 299 | 334 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1115 |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 118.47 |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | 86.7% |
| PIQA | 81.2% | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | 79% | 77.2% |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1147 |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | 74.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | 87.3% |
| MMLU | 66.1% | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | 82.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1166 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1090 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Mixtral 8x7B?

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

### Is Gemma 7B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mixtral 8x7B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.