Mistral Small 3 on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means
Mistral Small 3 scores 1407.1 on Arena Elo, placing it #190 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Mistral Small 3 highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
| 5 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 6 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 7 | Grok 4 Max | xAI | 2000000 | $19.70 | 86.6 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 10 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
What this score means
On Arena Elo, Mistral Small 3 sits at #190 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 94.8 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Mistral Small 3 above the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 1329.1 on this benchmark. Mistral Small 3 is 78.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 1409.6. Mistral Small 3 is 2.5 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 1407.1 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 $3.90 per million input tokens, Mistral Small 3 is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 Base | Alibaba Cloud | 65536 | $4.33 | 77.4 |
| Llama 3.1 | Meta AI | 200000 | $4.16 | 76.3 |
| Llama 4 Scout Chat | Meta AI | 32768 | $4.66 | 78.0 |
| Llama 3 Modal Instruct | Modal | 128000 | $3.84 | 75.2 |
| Mistral Small 3 | Mistral AI | 32768 | $3.90 | 75.3 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Mini | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $10.71 | 76.0 |
| Nova Pro Pro | Amazon | 200000 | $13.03 | 79.5 |
Other benchmarks for Mistral Small 3
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.1 | 240 | 60th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 73.8 | 177 | 71th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 65.6 | 202 | 66th | |
| HumanEval | 78.6 | 275 | 54th | |
| MATH-500 | 77.2 | 274 | 54th | |
| AIME 2025 | 70.8 | 242 | 60th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 65.1 | 292 | 51th | |
| IFEval | 83.5 | 232 | 61th | |
| TruthfulQA | 76.3 | 300 | 50th | |
| HellaSwag | 86.5 | 193 | 68th | |
| MMMU | 72.8 | 226 | 62th |
FAQ
What score does Mistral Small 3 get on Arena Elo?
Mistral Small 3 scores 1407.1 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.
How does Mistral Small 3 rank on Arena Elo?
It ranks #190 of 600 models, in the 68th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Is Mistral Small 3 good at Arena Elo?
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 Arena Elo score calculated?
Arena Elo is a preference 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 cost?
Mistral Small 3 costs $3.90 per million input tokens and $20.43 per million output tokens.