Model comparison

Laguna M.1 vs Mistral Small

Laguna M.1 and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.5 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Laguna M.1 Poolside

32.5

Rank #256 Reported

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Laguna M.1 leads 21.1 to 16.4.

Side by side

Laguna M.1 and Mistral Small specifications
Laguna M.1Mistral Small
ProviderPoolsideMistral AI
Noometry Index32.533.4
Released2026-04-282024-02-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output33K256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked339

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Category by category

Coding Laguna M.1 leads

Laguna M.1: 36.6 (#204), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
LMArena WebDev1349—
SciCode—26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
LMArena Coding—1362
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%

Reasoning Laguna M.1 leads

Laguna M.1: 23.1 (#184), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1335
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
Surface Evolver Bench15.6%—
LiveBench—44%

Math Laguna M.1 leads

Laguna M.1: 21.1 (#283), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
ProofBench0%—
LiveBench Math—39.9%
LMArena Math—1341
MATH Level 5—46.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
LMArena Expert—1291
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
LMArena Vision—1142

Multilingual Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
LMArena Non-English—1315
LMArena Chinese—1340
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1340
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1259
LMArena Russian—1324
LMArena Spanish—1346

Instruction Following Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1310

Long Context Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
LMArena Longer Query—1327

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Mistral Small
LMArena Text—1338
LMArena Creative Writing—1305
LMArena Multi-Turn—1344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Laguna M.1 better than Mistral Small?

Laguna M.1 and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.5 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Laguna M.1 or Mistral Small better for coding?

Laguna M.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Laguna M.1 and Mistral Small share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Laguna M.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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