Noometry

Model comparison

Mistral Small vs Olmo 3 32b Think

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Olmo 3 32b Think Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

38.7

Rank #183 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Olmo 3 32b Think in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3 32b Think leads 36.5 to 16.4.

Side by side

Mistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
ProviderMistral AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index33.438.7
Released2024-02-26—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output256K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked3914

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.6 (#172)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Coding13621319
SciCode26.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%—
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Olmo 3 32b Think: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%—

Reasoning Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Olmo 3 32b Think: 25.9 (#140)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts13351302
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
DTBench70.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
LMCA20.6%—
LiveBench44%—

Math Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Olmo 3 32b Think: 36.5 (#165)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Math13411316
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%—
LiveBench Math39.9%—
MATH Level 546.8%—

Knowledge Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Olmo 3 32b Think: 35.0 (#190)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Expert12911273
GPQA Diamond47.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
MMLU68.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Olmo 3 32b Think: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Vision1142—

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.2 (#210)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Non-English13151255
LMArena Chinese13401300
LMArena French13371291
LMArena German13401290
LMArena Russian13241254
LMArena Japanese1275—
LMArena Korean1259—
LMArena Spanish1346—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.2 (#198)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following13101275
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#182)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query13271296

Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.1 (#193)

BenchmarkMistral SmallOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Text13381300
LMArena Creative Writing13051256
LMArena Multi-Turn13441290
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small better than Olmo 3 32b Think?

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mistral Small or Olmo 3 32b Think better for coding?

Olmo 3 32b Think scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Olmo 3 32b Think share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3 32b Think has 14.

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