Gemma 4 E4B vs Mistral Large 2

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 Large 2

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 52 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Large 2's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 66.1 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 82%. Gemma 4 E4B does hit back in knowledge, 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 Large 2 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.

Operational tradeoffs

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SpeedN/A38 t/s
TTFTN/A1.45s
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E4BMistral Large 2
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.051%
BrowseComp57%
OSWorld-Verified50%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
LiveCodeBench52%38%
HumanEval60%
SWE-bench Verified49%
SWE-bench Pro44%
Multimodal & GroundedMistral Large 2 wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%56%
OfficeQA Pro67%
ReasoningMistral Large 2 wins
BBH33.1%82%
MRCRv225.4%68%
MuSR64%
LongBench v266%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins
GPQA58.6%68%
MMLU-Pro69.4%74%
MMLU68%
SuperGPQA66%
HLE12%
FrontierScience65%
SimpleQA66%
Instruction Following
IFEval83%
Multilingual
MGSM81%
MMLU-ProX78%
Mathematics
AIME 202368%
AIME 202470%
AIME 202569%
HMMT Feb 202364%
HMMT Feb 202466%
HMMT Feb 202565%
BRUMO 202567%
MATH-50082%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral Large 2?

Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 52 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 82%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral Large 2?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 55.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral Large 2?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 42.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E4B or Mistral Large 2?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.1 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 Large 2?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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