Model comparison
Granite 4.2 3b vs Mistral 7B
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 3b scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 7.4.
Side by side
| Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 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 | 11 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1306 | 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 Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: —, Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1315 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1268 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1269 | 1009 |
| LMArena Russian | 1249 | 1018 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1273 | 1060 |
Long Context Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1291 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1293 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1205 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 3b better than Mistral 7B?
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.2 3b or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 3b and Mistral 7B share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 3b has 11 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.