Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.0 to 25.8.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Mistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
ProviderMistral AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index31.230.3
Released2025-06-20—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.0938—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked610

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding—1016

Reasoning Too close to call

Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
Chess Puzzles1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—993
Epoch Capabilities Index131.74—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530.3%—
LMArena Math—1018

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond49.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English—977
LMArena Chinese—1014
LMArena Russian—947

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—978

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text—1032
LMArena Creative Writing—990
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1255—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1007

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Mistral Small 3.2 and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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