Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Mistral Small 3.2
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.1 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.1 to 31.2.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.1 | 30.8 |
| Released | — | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1113 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1143 | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.1 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.