Gemma 4 E4B vs Mistral 7B v0.3

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemma 4 E4B· Mistral 7B v0.3

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 E4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 7B v0.3 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 E4B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 29. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemma 4 E4B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 52 against 13.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 52% to 14%. Mistral 7B v0.3 does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral 7B v0.3 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 E4B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 7B v0.3.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E4BMistral 7B v0.3
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.024%
BrowseComp32%
OSWorld-Verified25%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
LiveCodeBench52%14%
HumanEval30.5%
SWE-bench Verified15%
SWE-bench Pro12%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E4B wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%27%
OfficeQA Pro39%
ReasoningMistral 7B v0.3 wins
BBH33.1%63%
MRCRv225.4%41%
MuSR26%
LongBench v238%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins
GPQA58.6%29%
MMLU-Pro69.4%54%
SuperGPQA27%
HLE5%
FrontierScience34%
SimpleQA28%
Instruction Following
IFEval68%
Multilingual
MGSM62%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
AIME 202330%
AIME 202432%
AIME 202531%
HMMT Feb 202326%
HMMT Feb 202428%
HMMT Feb 202527%
BRUMO 202529%
MATH-50060%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Gemma 4 E4B is ahead overall, 47 to 29. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 52% and 14%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 29.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 13.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Mistral 7B v0.3 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 35.8 versus 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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