I'm a fan of Mistral Small 3 personally but I've not spent enough time with it, Gemma and the new Mistral Small 3.1 to have an opinion of which of those is the "best" model.
The best indicator of model quality I can find right now is still https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard=
Gemma 3 27B holds an impressive 8th place right now, second highest non-proprietary model after DeekSeek R1 (at 6th).
QwQ-32B is 12th. Weirdly I couldn't find either of the Mistral Small 3 models on there.
I'm a fan of Mistral Small 3 personally but I've not spent enough time with it, Gemma and the new Mistral Small 3.1 to have an opinion of which of those is the "best" model.
The best indicator of model quality I can find right now is still https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard=
Gemma 3 27B holds an impressive 8th place right now, second highest non-proprietary model after DeekSeek R1 (at 6th).
QwQ-32B is 12th. Weirdly I couldn't find either of the Mistral Small 3 models on there.