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Mistral Small 3 7B on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means

Mistral Small 3 7B scores 48.9 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #535 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Score
48.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#535
of 600
Percentile
11th
within the index
Benchmark avg
65.6
all models
Leader
87.0
GPT-5.2 Reasoning
Gap to leader
38.1
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Mistral Small 3 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Reasoning 87.0
GPT-5.1 Max 86.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 86.0
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 85.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.2 84.9
o4 Turbo 84.8
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 84.6
Grok 4 Turbo 84.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
5 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
7 o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
10 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2

What this score means

On GPQA Diamond, Mistral Small 3 7B sits at #535 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 38.1 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Mistral Small 3 7B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 63.3 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 7B is 14.4 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 49.3. Mistral Small 3 7B is 0.4 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 48.9 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 $0.89 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on GPQA Diamond. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
DBRX 8B Databricks 4096 $0.82 54.1
Hunyuan-Large 1.5B Tencent 8192 $0.54 50.5
Llama 3 Novita 7B Novita AI 8192 $0.92 56.3
Llama 3 Novita 8B Novita AI 16384 $0.99 55.5
Mistral Small 3 7B Mistral AI 4096 $0.89 55.2
OLMo 2 7B Allen Institute for AI 16384 $0.56 51.7
Llama 3.3 Groq 1.5B Groq 4096 $0.46 50.0

Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 58.8 540 10th
SWE-bench Verified 43.1 490 18th
HumanEval 60.5 496 17th
MATH-500 55.6 513 15th
AIME 2025 47.4 474 21th
LiveCodeBench 44.1 507 16th
IFEval 65.8 522 13th
TruthfulQA 60.6 523 13th
HellaSwag 72.1 494 18th
MMMU 50.8 546 9th
Arena Elo 1246.3 496 17th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Small 3 7B get on GPQA Diamond?

Mistral Small 3 7B scores 48.9 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.

How does Mistral Small 3 7B rank on GPQA Diamond?

It ranks #535 of 600 models, in the 11th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Is Mistral Small 3 7B good at GPQA Diamond?

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 GPQA Diamond score calculated?

GPQA Diamond is a reasoning 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 7B cost?

Mistral Small 3 7B costs $0.89 per million input tokens and $4.71 per million output tokens.

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