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

Mistral Small 3 Chat scores 80.1 on HumanEval, placing it #231 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
80.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#231
of 600
Percentile
62th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
16.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Mistral Small 3 Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Mistral Small 3 Chat sits at #231 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 16.7 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Mistral Small 3 Chat above the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 71.6 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 Chat is 8.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 82.2. Mistral Small 3 Chat is 2.1 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 80.1 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 HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Nova Lite Max Amazon 200000 $9.79 73.4
Seed-OSS Instruct ByteDance 128000 $3.79 76.0
Gemini 3 Flash Mini Google DeepMind 200000 $10.71 76.0
Llama 3.1 Turbo Together AI 200000 $4.17 76.8
Mistral Small 3 Chat Mistral AI 200000 $3.54 73.7
Reka Flash Reka AI 128000 $9.95 74.1
MiniMax-M2 Base MiniMax 65536 $4.20 76.4

Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 76.7 286 52th
GPQA Diamond 68.2 310 48th
SWE-bench Verified 61.6 291 52th
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 HumanEval?

Mistral Small 3 Chat scores 80.1 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Mistral Small 3 Chat rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #231 of 600 models, in the 62nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Mistral Small 3 Chat good at HumanEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding 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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