Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Mistral Medium 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.4 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 35.5.
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 31.9 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1145 | — |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Mistral Medium 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.4 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.