Model comparison
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Magistral Small
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 20.5 to 6.8.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.2 |
| Released | — | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 20.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1090 | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 133.19 |
Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30% |
| LMArena Math | 1117 | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1064 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1033 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1070 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1045 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1056 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1070 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1046 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1053 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Magistral Small?
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Magistral Small share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.