Model comparison
Mistral vs Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.8 to 16.3.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 30.8 |
| Released | — | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral: 33.2 (#249), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | — |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Mistral: 21.3 (#199), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral: 20.5 (#275), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1180 | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral: 16.3 (#283), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral: 33.0 (#249), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | — |
| LMArena French | 1179 | — |
| LMArena German | 1155 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral: 52.9 (#283), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral: 35.0 (#240), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1154 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral: 37.2 (#255), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mistral and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.