Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct leads with 24.8% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
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.
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Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct

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

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct