Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 74× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium leads 28.1 to 12.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 59.5% for Mistral Medium.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Max output | 118K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1426 |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
Math Mistral Medium leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1408 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1398 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1391 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1418 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 74× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Mistral Medium?
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Mistral Medium share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.