# Mistral Small 3.1 vs Palm 2

> Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-3-1-vs-palm-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 6 categories and Palm 2 in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 41.4 to 21.1.
- Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 263 | 296 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.35 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.56 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175)
- Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | 995 |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249)
- Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1278 | 1005 |
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.48 | — |

## Math

- Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295)
- Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1261 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 3.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 24.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266)
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 61% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1258 | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93)
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1136 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204)
- Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1255 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1254 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1270 | — |
| LMArena German | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1210 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1283 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small 3.1: 63.8 (#225)
- Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1264 | 1010 |
| IFEval | 75% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172)
- Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1300 | 1010 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254)
- Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1278 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1253 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1270 | 994 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 761 | — |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small 3.1 better than Palm 2?

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Small 3.1 or Palm 2 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.