Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 vs Mixtral 8x22B
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.8 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 49.1% for Mistral Small 3.2 and 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 64K.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 26.7 |
| Released | 2025-06-20 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 64K |
| Max output | 16K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.0938 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 122 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251), Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1150 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219), Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1255 | — |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.2 or Mixtral 8x22B?
Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 64K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Mixtral 8x22B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.