Mistral Small 3 Base on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Mistral Small 3 Base scores 83.4 on HellaSwag, placing it #309 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 Base 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 Base sits at #309 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 12.7 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Mistral Small 3 Base below the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 79.8 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 Base is 3.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 80.2. Mistral Small 3 Base is 3.2 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 83.4 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 $3.19 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 Base 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3 Modal Instruct | Modal | 128000 | $3.84 | 75.2 |
| Llama 3 Novita Chat | Novita AI | 65536 | $3.50 | 74.2 |
| Seed-OSS | ByteDance | 32768 | $3.74 | 75.3 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Nano | Google DeepMind | 32768 | $7.56 | 69.4 |
| Mistral Small 3 Base | Mistral AI | 16384 | $3.19 | 72.7 |
| Phi-4 Instruct | Microsoft | 128000 | $3.79 | 75.3 |
| Codestral Base | Mistral AI | 8192 | $3.31 | 73.1 |
Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 Base
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 77.5 | 262 | 56th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.6 | 246 | 59th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 59.4 | 336 | 44th | |
| HumanEval | 77.5 | 298 | 50th | |
| MATH-500 | 73.1 | 357 | 41th | |
| AIME 2025 | 69.7 | 264 | 56th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 63.7 | 328 | 45th | |
| IFEval | 80.0 | 332 | 45th | |
| TruthfulQA | 76.7 | 288 | 52th | |
| MMMU | 68.5 | 335 | 44th | |
| Arena Elo | 1377.0 | 284 | 53th |
FAQ
What score does Mistral Small 3 Base get on HellaSwag?
Mistral Small 3 Base scores 83.4 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Mistral Small 3 Base rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #309 of 600 models, in the 49th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Mistral Small 3 Base 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 Base cost?
Mistral Small 3 Base costs $3.19 per million input tokens and $11.34 per million output tokens.