Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Mistral 7B
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 33.0 to 8.1.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 23.0 |
| Released | — | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120), Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1145 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | 1009 |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | 1018 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | 1060 |
Long Context Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Mistral 7B?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Mistral 7B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.