The magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of Sm 1−x Gd x Mn 2 Ge 2 compounds with 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.10 have been studied. SmMn 2 Ge 2 is antiferromagnetic below the Néel temperature T N (≈ 400 K). Further cooling leeds to canted ferromagnetic phase below T C = 341 K. With decreasing temperature, two metamagnetic phase transitions are observed: F2-AF1 at T 2 = 153 K and AF1-F1 at T 1 = 106 K. The maximum values of magnetic entropy change |∆S m | are found to be 1.5 J K −1 kg −1 at T 1 and 2.0 J K −1 kg −1 at T 2 in SmMn 2 Ge 2 . The MCE is found to increase with Gd concentration, |∆S m (T 1 )| = 3.3 J K −1 kg −1 , while |∆S m (T 2 )| is slightly enhanced for x = 0.1. The magnetocaloric effect is found to be positive at T 1 and negative at T 2 .