Model comparison
Granite 4.0 H Small vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 23.4 to 10.1.
- Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 31.5 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1247 | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | — |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1251 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1244 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1250 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1198 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 89% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1221 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1240 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1243 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.