Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Medium 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 3 27B leads 16.3 to 10.1.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 31.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 43 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1303 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1165 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | — |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1348 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | 1476 |
| LMArena Text | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Medium 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 131K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.