Model comparison
Gemma 2 2b IT vs Mistral Small
Gemma 2 2b IT and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.1 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 2b IT scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2 2b IT leads 32.6 to 16.4.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 33.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#273), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 2 2b IT: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 21.4 (#224), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.6 (#212), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1135 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
Knowledge Mistral Small leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.9 (#231), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1096 | 1291 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 2 2b IT: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#257), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1121 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1132 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | 1157 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1114 | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1083 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 1055 | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | 1118 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1140 | 1346 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 57.8 (#263), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1118 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.3 (#250), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1130 | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.5 (#263), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 2b IT | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1156 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1147 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1118 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 2b IT better than Mistral Small?
Gemma 2 2b IT and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.1 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 2 2b IT or Mistral Small better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 2b IT and Mistral Small share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 2b IT has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.