Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Mistral
Granite 4.0 Micro and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 52.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is IFEval: 84.9% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 56.8% for Mistral.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1162 |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1149 |
Math Mistral leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | 7.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1180 |
Knowledge Mistral leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | 30.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1125 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1109 |
| LMArena French | — | 1180 |
| LMArena German | — | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1152 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1153 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 67% | 66% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1147 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Mistral?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Mistral share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.