Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Muse Glimmer
Muse Glimmer is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Glimmer in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Muse Glimmer leads 36.1 to 15.4.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 41.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Muse Glimmer: 38.7 (#157)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 1417 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1355 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Muse Glimmer: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Muse Glimmer: 27.2 (#111)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | 1395 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Muse Glimmer: 36.1 (#128)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1419 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Muse Glimmer: 37.9 (#140)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | 1388 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Muse Glimmer: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Muse Glimmer: 50.6 (#117)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1384 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | 1412 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1393 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Muse Glimmer: 72.7 (#134)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1374 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Muse Glimmer: 42.1 (#124)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1381 |
Writing & Preference Muse Glimmer leads
Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Muse Glimmer: 57.7 (#122)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1389 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | 1338 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1398 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Muse Glimmer?
Muse Glimmer is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Small or Muse Glimmer better for coding?
Muse Glimmer scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Muse Glimmer share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Muse Glimmer has 13.