Model comparison
Mercury vs Mistral Small 3.2
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 40.4% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 30.8 |
| Released | — | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury: 38.1 (#164), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mercury: 16.8 (#288), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.7 (#201), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury: 65.3 (#220), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.3 (#193), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | — |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#216), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.