Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E2B
~39
Winner · 3/8 categoriesMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
36
1/8 categoriesGemma 4 E2B· Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
Pick Gemma 4 E2B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Gemma 4 E2B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 39 versus 36. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Gemma 4 E2B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 44.2 against 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 19.1% to 38%. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemma 4 E2B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E2B | Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 35% |
| BrowseComp | — | 32% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 28% |
| CodingGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 44% | — |
| HumanEval | — | 54.8% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 40% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 44.2% | 35% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 36% |
| ReasoningMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 wins | ||
| BBH | 21.9% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 19.1% | 38% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 39% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| GPQA | 43.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |
| FrontierScience | — | 53% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 42% |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Gemma 4 E2B is ahead overall, 39 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 19.1% and 38%.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 53. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 40. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 38.5 versus 19.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 35.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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