Mistral Small 3 Instruct on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Mistral Small 3 Instruct scores 85.0 on HellaSwag, placing it #246 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 Instruct 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 Instruct sits at #246 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 11.1 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Mistral Small 3 Instruct above the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 79.8 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 Instruct is 5.2 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 86.8. Mistral Small 3 Instruct is 1.8 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 85.0 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefunction Pro | Fireworks AI | 16384 | $9.05 | 72.9 |
| Hunyuan-Turbo Pro | Tencent | 65536 | $12.00 | 77.6 |
| Hunyuan-Turbo Reasoning | Tencent | 128000 | $11.89 | 77.5 |
| Magistral Base | Mistral AI | 65536 | $3.86 | 75.6 |
| Mistral Small 3 Instruct | Mistral AI | 32768 | $3.97 | 75.1 |
| Mixtral Groq | Groq | 16384 | $3.37 | 73.1 |
| Nova Lite Turbo | Amazon | 8192 | $9.14 | 73.2 |
Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3 Instruct
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3 | 233 | 61th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.0 | 264 | 56th | |
| 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 | |
| MMMU | 72.9 | 224 | 63th | |
| Arena Elo | 1385.0 | 265 | 56th |
FAQ
What score does Mistral Small 3 Instruct get on HellaSwag?
Mistral Small 3 Instruct scores 85.0 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Mistral Small 3 Instruct rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #246 of 600 models, in the 59th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Mistral Small 3 Instruct good at HellaSwag?
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 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 Instruct cost?
Mistral Small 3 Instruct costs $3.97 per million input tokens and $20.95 per million output tokens.