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.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

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 and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
Gemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.640.2
Released2024-02-21—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—210K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked2322

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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)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding10101461
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)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts9891436
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2141.35
Kagi LLM Benchmark—41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—12.9%
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math10091431
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert—1432
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision—1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English9581404
LMArena Chinese9861442
LMArena Russian9371395
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)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following9701415

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query9811415

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text10021421
LMArena Creative Writing9871374
LMArena Multi-Turn9451423
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.

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