# Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Mistral

> Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-3-0-2b-instruct-vs-mistral
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 29.0 to 16.6.
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 29.9 |
| Rank | 286 | 303 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316)
- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1090 | 1162 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 20.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235)
- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1149 |

## Math

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217)
- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1117 | 1180 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241)
- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1064 | 1125 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278)
- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1033 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1070 | 1109 |
| LMArena Russian | 1045 | 1168 |
| LMArena French | — | 1180 |
| LMArena German | — | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284)
- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1056 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |

## Long Context

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268)
- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1070 | 1153 |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292)
- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1080 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1046 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1053 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Mistral?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Mistral better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Mistral share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.