Model comparison

Gemma 2 2b IT vs Mistral Medium 3.1

Gemma 2 2b IT and Mistral Medium 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.5 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 2b IT

Google

32.5

Rank #244 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1

Mistral AI

31.5

Rank #260 Reported

Summary

The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.6 to 36.6.
Gemma 2 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 2b IT and Mistral Medium 3.1 specifications
	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
Provider	Google	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	32.5	31.5
Released	—	—
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	131K
Max output	—	105K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.40
Output $ / M tokens	—	$2
Results tracked	17	3

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 31.8 (#268), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Coding	1112	—

Reasoning Gemma 2 2b IT leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 20.5 (#219), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
NYT Connections (extended)	—	6.5%
Thematic Generalization	—	20.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1113	—

Math Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 30.1 (#212), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Math	1135	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.3 (#229), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Expert	1096	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.5 (#252), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Non-English	1121	—
LMArena Chinese	1132	—
LMArena French	1156	—
LMArena German	1114	—
LMArena Japanese	1083	—
LMArena Korean	1055	—
LMArena Russian	1118	—
LMArena Spanish	1140	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 58.1 (#258), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following	1118	—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.2 (#245), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Longer Query	1130	—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.6 (#258), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 2 2b IT	Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Text	1156	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1147	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1476
LMArena Multi-Turn	1118	—

Frequently asked questions

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