Noometry

Model comparison

Mistral Small vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

39.4

Rank #168 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 36.3 to 16.4.

Side by side

Mistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderMistral AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index33.439.4
Released2024-02-26—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output256K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked3916

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding13621347
SciCode26.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%—
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%—

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13351322
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
DTBench70.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
LMCA20.6%—
LiveBench44%—

Math Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13411305
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%—
LiveBench Math39.9%—
MATH Level 546.8%—

Knowledge Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert12911308
GPQA Diamond47.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
MMLU68.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1142—

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13151275
LMArena Chinese13401304
LMArena French13371328
LMArena German13401282
LMArena Korean12591206
LMArena Russian13241268
LMArena Spanish13461336
LMArena Japanese1275—

Instruction Following Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13101299
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13271312

Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text13381311
LMArena Creative Writing13051264
LMArena Multi-Turn13441309
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mistral Small or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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