Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.8 to 12.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.1% for Ministral 8B and 49.1% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.0938 / $0.25 for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 27.8 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 256K |
| Max output | 128K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | 49.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Ministral 8B or Mistral Small 3.2?
Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.2 lists at $0.0938 and $0.25.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.