Model comparison
Codestral vs Mistral Small 3.2
Codestral and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 32.5% for Codestral and 40.4% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for Codestral.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 256K |
| Max output | 8K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Codestral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Codestral leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.74 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Codestral and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Codestral or Mistral Small 3.2?
Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Codestral lists at $0.30 and $0.90.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 256K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.