Model comparison
Grok-3 mini vs Mistral Small 3.2
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok-3 mini leads 46.4 to 26.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.2 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 49.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1379 | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 40.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.35 | 131.74 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 16.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1375 | — |
Math Grok-3 mini leads
Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 77.8% | 30.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 31.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1386 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 90.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | — |
Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads
Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 67.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1395 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1352 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena French | 1357 | — |
| LMArena German | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1342 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1335 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1353 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1381 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 95.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1357 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1372 | — |
Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads
Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1342 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| WildBench | 65.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1355 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok-3 mini better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.