Mistral Small 3 8B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Mistral Small 3 8B scores 73.5 on HellaSwag, placing it #468 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Mistral Small 3 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Mistral Small 3 8B sits at #468 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 22.6 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Mistral Small 3 8B below the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 79.8 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 8B is 6.3 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 70.2. Mistral Small 3 8B is 3.3 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 73.5 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 $0.99 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmolLM3 Base | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.38 | 60.4 |
| Yi-Large 8B | 01.AI | 32768 | $0.88 | 56.1 |
| Llama 3 Anyscale 8B | Anyscale | 32768 | $0.97 | 57.3 |
| Llama 3 Novita 8B | Novita AI | 16384 | $0.99 | 55.5 |
| Mistral Small 3 8B | Mistral AI | 8192 | $0.99 | 57.2 |
| QwQ 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.11 | 58.1 |
| GLM-4.5 8B | Zhipu AI | 32768 | $1.46 | 61.3 |
Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 62.6 | 494 | 18th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.8 | 501 | 17th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 40.7 | 514 | 14th | |
| HumanEval | 61.3 | 478 | 20th | |
| MATH-500 | 55.5 | 516 | 14th | |
| AIME 2025 | 47.5 | 473 | 21th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 45.8 | 489 | 19th | |
| IFEval | 68.9 | 477 | 21th | |
| TruthfulQA | 62.9 | 494 | 18th | |
| MMMU | 58.3 | 453 | 25th | |
| Arena Elo | 1253.4 | 485 | 19th |
FAQ
What score does Mistral Small 3 8B get on HellaSwag?
Mistral Small 3 8B scores 73.5 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Mistral Small 3 8B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #468 of 600 models, in the 22nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Mistral Small 3 8B good at HellaSwag?
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 HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense 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 8B cost?
Mistral Small 3 8B costs $0.99 per million input tokens and $5.38 per million output tokens.