Model comparison

INTELLECT-1 vs Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#278); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #278 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

INTELLECT-1 and Mistral Small 3 specifications
INTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
ProviderHugging FaceMistral AI
Noometry Index—31.2
Released2024-11-292025-01-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked724

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.3%
LMArena Coding—1246
BigCodeBench Complete—50.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
Epoch Capabilities Index100.86127.07
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1233
BIG-Bench Hard34.9%—
HellaSwag71.4%—
WinoGrande65.8%—

Math Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
LMArena Math—1240
GSM8K38.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
GPQA Diamond—47.3%
Confabulations—25.2%
LMArena Expert—1202
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
MMLU49.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English—1198
LMArena Chinese—1204
LMArena French—1203
LMArena German—1211
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1216

Instruction Following Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following—1214

Long Context Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query—1246

Writing & Preference Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Mistral Small 3
LMArena Text—1234
LMArena Creative Writing—1195
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—707
LMArena Multi-Turn—1217

Frequently asked questions

Is INTELLECT-1 better than Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#278); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do INTELLECT-1 and Mistral Small 3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. INTELLECT-1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.

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