# Mercury vs Mistral Small 3.2

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-mistral-small-3-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 40.4% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 31.2 |
| Rank | 199 | 280 |
| Context | — | 256K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
- Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.74 |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
- Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.