# Mistral Small 3 vs Yi-Large

> Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#268); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3 scores higher in 0 categories and Yi-Large in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 45.3% for Mistral Small 3 and 37.7% for Yi-Large.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 268 | — |
| Context | 33K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.08 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203)
- Yi-Large: 36.1 (#201)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.3% | 37.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.4% | 47.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1246 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1233 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.06 | — |

## Math

- Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1240 | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 25.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1202 | — |
| MMLU | — | 79.3% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1198 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena French | 1202 | — |
| LMArena German | 1211 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1214 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1246 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1195 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 707 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1217 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small 3 better than Yi-Large?

Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#268); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Mistral Small 3 or Yi-Large better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (36.0 vs 36.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3 and Yi-Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.