Model comparison
Gemma 2 9B vs Mistral
Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral leads 20.5 to 9.3.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 9B | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 25.7 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 35 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral leads
Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299), Mistral: 33.2 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1174 | 1162 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | — |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306), Mistral: 21.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1172 | 1149 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 36.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.78 | — |
| LiveBench | 28.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.7% | — |
Math Mistral leads
Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312), Mistral: 20.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1183 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | — |
| GSM8K | 84.9% | — |
Knowledge Mistral leads
Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300), Mistral: 16.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| BoolQ | 85.7% | — |
| MMLU | 72.1% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 2 9B leads
Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233), Mistral: 33.0 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1189 | 1179 |
| LMArena German | 1186 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | 1012 |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Gemma 2 9B leads
Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264), Mistral: 52.9 (#283)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | 1152 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
Long Context Gemma 2 9B leads
Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228), Mistral: 35.0 (#240)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | 1154 |
Writing & Preference Mistral leads
Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276), Mistral: 37.2 (#255)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1207 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | 1147 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | — |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 9B better than Mistral?
Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2 9B or Mistral better for coding?
Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Mistral share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.