Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Mistral Large
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mistral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 32.8 to 18.2.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 31.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 30% |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1277 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 38.3% |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | 1240 |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | 1257 |
| LMArena French | — | 1325 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 1261 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Mistral Large?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mistral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Mistral Large better for coding?
Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mistral Large share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.