Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.5 to 24.0.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 40.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 210K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1264 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 141.35 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1431 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1432 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1223 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1442 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1395 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1409 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1415 |
Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1415 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.