Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct leads with 15.6% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct offers 192.0K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct is available on 6 providers. Overall, Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 3.2 11B was introduced as a mid-sized variant in the Llama 3.2 family, designed to offer enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency. Built to provide a balanced option for applications requiring more than lightweight models but less than flagship sizes, it serves diverse use cases in the open-source community.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 24B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the 24B base model, designed to follow user instructions reliably. Built to serve general-purpose applications requiring moderate capability, it balances performance with deployment practicality.
4 months newer

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Sambanova

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Together

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI