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Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.1 vs Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral Small 3.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.3 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 3.9% for Mistral Small 3.1 and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $0.56 for Mistral Small 3.1.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
Noometry Index31.731.2
Released2025-03-172025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K256K
Max output102K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.35$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens$0.56$0.25
Results tracked286

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Coding1309—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
Chess Puzzles1%1%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.48131.74
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1278—

Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20253.9%30.3%
Omni-MATH24.8%—
LMArena Math1262—

Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond41.9%49.1%
MMLU-Pro61%—
GPQA (HELM)39.2%—
LMArena Expert1257—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision1136—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1255—
LMArena Chinese1253—
LMArena French1273—
LMArena German1266—
LMArena Japanese1208—
LMArena Korean1206—
LMArena Russian1263—
LMArena Spanish1283—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
IFEval75%—
LMArena Instruction Following1264—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1299—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

BenchmarkMistral Small 3.1Mistral Small 3.2
EQ-Bench Creative Writing7611255
LMArena Text1277—
LMArena Creative Writing1253—
WildBench78.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1270—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.1 better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.1 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; Mistral Small 3.1 lists at $0.35 and $0.56.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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