Model comparison
Granite 4.0 H Small vs Mistral Small
Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Small in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 31.4 to 16.4.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 33.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1247 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1251 | 1291 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | 1340 |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | 1346 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
| IFEval | 89% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | 1344 |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Mistral Small?
Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Mistral Small better for coding?
Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Mistral Small share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.