Model comparison
Gemma 2 9B vs Mistral Nemo
Gemma 2 9B and Mistral Nemo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.9 vs 26.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Nemo in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Nemo leads 25.5 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 21% for Gemma 2 9B and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 26.4 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | 2024-07-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1173 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |
| BALROG | — | 17.6% |
Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads
Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.83 | 118.68 |
| PIQA | 83.7% | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1171 | — |
| DTBench | — | 48.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 36.4% | — |
| LiveBench | 28.7% | — |
Math Mistral Nemo leads
Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | 10.8% |
| GSM8K | 84.9% | 84.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1183 | — |
Knowledge Mistral Nemo leads
Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | 29.9% |
| BoolQ | 85.7% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | — |
| MMLU | 72.1% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | — |
| LMArena French | 1190 | — |
| LMArena German | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 2 9B leads
Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | 881 |
| LMArena Text | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 9B better than Mistral Nemo?
Gemma 2 9B and Mistral Nemo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.9 vs 26.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Mistral Nemo share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.