Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct leads with 9.6% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 MoE was created using a mixture-of-experts architecture, designed to provide enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency through sparse activation. Built to combine the benefits of larger models with practical computational requirements, it represents Microsoft's exploration of efficient scaling techniques.
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2024-08-23

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Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

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Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

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