Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 vs Pixtral Large
Mistral Small 3.1 and Pixtral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 32.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 37.0 to 32.9.
- Mistral Small 3.1 is cheaper at $0.35 / $0.56 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.7 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 102K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.35 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.56 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 28 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1278 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.48 | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 3.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 24.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1262 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 61% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1257 | — |
Multimodal Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1136 | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1253 | — |
| LMArena French | 1273 | — |
| LMArena German | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1283 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 75% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1264 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1299 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 761 | 988 |
| LMArena Text | 1277 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1253 | — |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1270 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3.1 better than Pixtral Large?
Mistral Small 3.1 and Pixtral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 32.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.1 or Pixtral Large?
Mistral Small 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $0.56 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and Pixtral Large share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.