Model comparison
Ministral 3B vs Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Medium leads 25.0 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.4% for Ministral 3B and 81.6% for Mistral Medium.
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 26.2 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Max output | 262K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.7% | 75.5% |
| LMCA | 5.5% | 26.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1426 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.1 | — |
Math Mistral Medium leads
Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 14.4% | 81.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1408 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium leads
Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 25.3% | 59.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.3% | 22.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1398 |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1391 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1418 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 3B better than Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Ministral 3B or Mistral Medium?
Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Mistral Medium share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.