Mistral Small 3 Instruct on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means
Mistral Small 3 Instruct scores 70.0 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #264 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Mistral Small 3 Instruct highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg 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 Instruct sits at #264 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 17.0 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Mistral Small 3 Instruct above the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 63.3 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 Instruct is 6.7 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 Instruct is 3.5 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 70.0 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 $3.97 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 Instruct 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.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codestral Chat | Mistral AI | 32768 | $3.89 | 75.8 |
| Command R+ Chat | Cohere | 32768 | $4.02 | 76.0 |
| Llama 3 Lambda Base | Lambda | 8192 | $3.19 | 72.9 |
| Llama 3 Novita | Novita AI | 128000 | $3.70 | 74.4 |
| Mistral Small 3 Instruct | Mistral AI | 32768 | $3.97 | 75.1 |
| Yi-Large Instruct | 01.AI | 32768 | $3.48 | 73.4 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Mini | Google DeepMind | 128000 | $10.07 | 74.2 |
Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 Instruct
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3 | 233 | 61th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 62.2 | 277 | 54th | |
| HumanEval | 79.7 | 243 | 60th | |
| MATH-500 | 80.5 | 200 | 67th | |
| AIME 2025 | 68.2 | 294 | 51th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 68.2 | 224 | 63th | |
| IFEval | 85.3 | 178 | 70th | |
| TruthfulQA | 76.1 | 303 | 50th | |
| HellaSwag | 85.0 | 246 | 59th | |
| MMMU | 72.9 | 224 | 63th | |
| Arena Elo | 1385.0 | 265 | 56th |
FAQ
What score does Mistral Small 3 Instruct get on GPQA Diamond?
Mistral Small 3 Instruct scores 70.0 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.
How does Mistral Small 3 Instruct rank on GPQA Diamond?
It ranks #264 of 600 models, in the 56th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.
Is Mistral Small 3 Instruct good at GPQA Diamond?
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 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 Instruct cost?
Mistral Small 3 Instruct costs $3.97 per million input tokens and $20.95 per million output tokens.