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

Mistral Small 3 Chat scores 68.2 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #310 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Score
68.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#310
of 600
Percentile
48th
within the index
Benchmark avg
65.6
all models
Leader
87.0
GPT-5.2 Reasoning
Gap to leader
18.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Mistral Small 3 Chat 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 Chat sits at #310 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 18.8 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Mistral Small 3 Chat below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 63.3 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 Chat is 4.9 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 73.5. Mistral Small 3 Chat is 5.3 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 68.2 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 $3.54 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 Chat 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
GPT-5.2 Nano OpenAI 128000 $9.73 73.5
MiniMax-Text Base MiniMax 128000 $3.66 74.9
Llama 3.1 Base Meta AI 32768 $3.39 72.2
Firefunction Reasoning Fireworks AI 8192 $9.08 72.5
Mistral Small 3 Chat Mistral AI 200000 $3.54 73.7
Seed-OSS Base ByteDance 16384 $3.14 72.2
Yi-Large Base 01.AI 16384 $2.78 70.3

Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 76.7 286 52th
SWE-bench Verified 61.6 291 52th
HumanEval 80.1 231 62th
MATH-500 75.2 322 46th
AIME 2025 66.9 315 48th
LiveCodeBench 67.6 235 61th
IFEval 82.9 247 59th
TruthfulQA 78.8 226 62th
HellaSwag 82.6 333 45th
MMMU 70.4 285 53th
Arena Elo 1387.4 257 57th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Small 3 Chat get on GPQA Diamond?

Mistral Small 3 Chat scores 68.2 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.

How does Mistral Small 3 Chat rank on GPQA Diamond?

It ranks #310 of 600 models, in the 48th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Is Mistral Small 3 Chat 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 Chat cost?

Mistral Small 3 Chat costs $3.54 per million input tokens and $16.77 per million output tokens.

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