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.

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Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.5

Rank #260 Reported

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 and Mistral Medium 3.1 specifications
Granite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
ProviderIBMMistral AI
Noometry Index35.931.5
Released——
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—131K
Max output—105K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked193

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Coding1247—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
NYT Connections (extended)—6.5%
Thematic Generalization—20.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1240—

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
Omni-MATH29.6%—
LMArena Math1251—

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
MMLU-Pro56.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1244—

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Non-English1216—
LMArena Chinese1250—
LMArena Russian1198—
LMArena Spanish1258—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
IFEval89%—
LMArena Instruction Following1221—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Longer Query1240—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Text1241—
LMArena Creative Writing1210—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1476
WildBench73.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1243—

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.

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