Model comparison
Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Small 3
Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mistral Small 3 leads 36.5 to 26.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 67% for Llama 4 Maverick and 47.3% for Mistral Small 3.
- Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 33K |
| Max output | 4K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.19 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49.7% | 45.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1302 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.4% | 50.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | — |
| SciCode | 33.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 172.97 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | 127.07 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1299 | 1240 |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 67% | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | 22.6% | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1259 | 1202 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |
Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1269 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1259 | 1203 |
| LMArena German | 1291 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1293 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | 1214 |
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | 1246 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1267 | 1195 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | 707 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | 1217 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Mistral Small 3?
Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.
Is Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Llama 4 Maverick does, with 128K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Small 3 share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.