Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct leads with 9.5% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct is available on 6 providers. Overall, Mistral Small 3.2 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 3.2 24B Instruct represents a further evolution of the Small model series, developed with continued refinements to instruction-following and task performance. Built to incorporate ongoing improvements, it provides the latest capabilities in Mistral's intermediate-scale offering.
8 months newer

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 8 common benchmarks

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 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 3.2 24B Instruct

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Together

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct