Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct leads with 11.1% higher average benchmark score. Gemma 3n E2B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Ministral 8B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Gemma 3N E2B was created as a specialized efficient variant, designed for deployment in edge and mobile environments with strict resource constraints. Built with optimizations for edge computing, it brings Gemma capabilities to devices and applications where traditional models would be impractical.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
8 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Gemma 3n E2B
2025-06-26
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Gemma 3n E2B

Ministral 8B Instruct
Gemma 3n E2B
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemma 3n E2B

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Gemma 3n E2B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Gemma 3n E2B

Ministral 8B Instruct