Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Palm 2
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
GoogleSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 6 categories and Palm 2 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.6 to 25.7.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 995 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | 1005 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1049 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1010 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 994 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Palm 2?
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Small or Palm 2 better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.