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Mistral Small 3 1.5B on MATH-500: score, rank and what it means

Mistral Small 3 1.5B scores 48.7 on MATH-500, placing it #569 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.

Score
48.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#569
of 600
Percentile
5th
within the index
Benchmark avg
72.5
all models
Leader
96.7
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
48.0
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MATH-500, with Mistral Small 3 1.5B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 96.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.1 Pro 95.1
o4 Reasoning 94.8
Grok 4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 94.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.2
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 93.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo 93.2

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
3 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
4 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5
5 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
6 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo Anthropic 2000000 $19.57 85.7

What this score means

On MATH-500, Mistral Small 3 1.5B sits at #569 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.7, so the gap to the top is 48.0 points. The median model in this index scores 76.0, which puts Mistral Small 3 1.5B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 69.1 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 1.5B is 20.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 53.7. Mistral Small 3 1.5B is 5.0 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 48.7 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.42 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 1.5B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MATH-500. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
DeepSeek-Coder 1.5B DeepSeek 16384 $0.58 51.0
Llama 3 Modal 1.5B Modal 4096 $0.42 49.7
Llama 3.3 Groq 1.5B Groq 4096 $0.46 50.0
Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B Cerebras 4096 $0.48 50.2
Mistral Small 3 1.5B Mistral AI 32768 $0.42 49.2
Nemotron Nano 7B NVIDIA 8192 $0.35 47.5
Phi-4 1.5B Microsoft 8192 $0.42 48.1

Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 56.3 566 6th
GPQA Diamond 44.3 569 5th
SWE-bench Verified 34.7 561 7th
HumanEval 50.9 568 5th
AIME 2025 36.6 558 7th
LiveCodeBench 34.5 572 5th
IFEval 62.5 551 8th
TruthfulQA 56.1 564 6th
HellaSwag 68.5 554 8th
MMMU 48.0 565 6th
Arena Elo 1200.3 555 8th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Small 3 1.5B get on MATH-500?

Mistral Small 3 1.5B scores 48.7 on MATH-500 in this index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the top score is 96.7.

How does Mistral Small 3 1.5B rank on MATH-500?

It ranks #569 of 600 models, in the 5th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.

Is Mistral Small 3 1.5B good at MATH-500?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the MATH-500 score calculated?

MATH-500 is a mathematics benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Mistral Small 3 1.5B cost?

Mistral Small 3 1.5B costs $0.42 per million input tokens and $1.58 per million output tokens.

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