Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Behemoth supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Behemoth is a research-scale Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 2 trillion total parameters (288 billion active per inference), developed by Meta as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family. Available only in limited preview, it serves as the knowledge distillation source for Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Behemoth targets research applications requiring the largest-scale open-weight model architecture from the Llama 4 generation.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 is a 24-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released in January 2025 as an update to the Mistral Small line with targeted improvements to instruction-following, multilingual reasoning, and structured output quality. Released under Apache 2.0, it was designed for deployment on a single high-VRAM GPU, continuing Mistral's focus on practical efficiency over maximum scale. The model became a widely-used option for teams building internal tooling, customer-facing applications, and local inference pipelines that needed strong general capability without the operational overhead of larger models.

Mistral Small 3 24B
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
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Llama 4 Behemoth
Together AI
Mistral Small 3 24B
Llama 4 Behemoth
Mistral Small 3 24B
Llama 4 Behemoth
Mistral Small 3 24B