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Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Mistral Small 3.2 24B wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge.

Category leads
general·Mistral Small 3.2 24Bknowledge·Mistral Small 3.2 24B
Hype vs Reality
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
#277 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
#278 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
23.4x better value than Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
139.1 pts/$
$0.17/M
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
6.0 pts/$
$4.00/M
Vendor risk
Mistral AI logo
Mistral AI
$14.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Mistral AI logo
Mistral AI
$14.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Mistral Small 3.2 24BMixtral 8x22B Instruct
Dtbench
Mistral Small 3.2 24B leads by +7.9
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
33.1
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
25.2
GPQA diamond
Mistral Small 3.2 24B leads by +20.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
32.1
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
12.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2 24BMixtral 8x22B Instruct
Dtbench
33.125.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
32.112.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Mistral AI logoMistral Small 3.2 24B$0.09$0.25256K tokens (~128 books)$1.33
Mistral AI logoMixtral 8x22B Instruct$2.00$6.0066K tokens (~33 books)$30.00