Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct leads with 1.9% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Codestral 22B was developed as a specialized coding model from Mistral AI, designed to excel at code generation, completion, and understanding tasks. Built with 22 billion parameters optimized for programming, it serves developers requiring advanced assistance with software development across multiple programming languages.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
9 months newer

Codestral-22B
Mistral AI
2024-05-29

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Codestral-22B

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

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Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Codestral-22B

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct