Compare / Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs o1

Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs o1

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 17 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

Mistral Small 3.2 24B
Mistral · profile
o1
OpenAI · profile
Results compared
17
Shared sources
3

Mistral Small 3.2 24B or o1? The short answer

  • Mistral Small 3.2 24B is cheaper: $0.13 against $26.25 per million tokens, 198 times less.
  • o1 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 15.2 against 8.2.
  • On our business benchmarks, o1 ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge and writing.

At a glance

Mistral Small 3.2 24Bo1
Price per million tokens$0.094 in · $0.25 out$15.00 in · $60.00 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.13$26.25
Cheapest host, blended$0.11 (DeepInfra, FP8)–
Intelligence Index8.215.2
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window256,000 tokens200,000 tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Developer based inFrancethe US

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among models available today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. The better rank is in green.

Use caseMistral Small 3.2 24Bo1
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 118 of 161 not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 163 of 195 126 of 195
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 130 of 187 74 of 187
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers not measured 86 of 153

Every shared result

BenchmarkMetricMistral Small 3.2 24Bo1
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,3631,370
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,3231,381
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,3351,402
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,3381,407
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,3571,402
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,3291,398
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 12.539.7
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 8.2015.2
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 50.5%74.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 4.3%7.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 33.5%70.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 20.3%65.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 6.8%12.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 29.5%62.6%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 17.0%24.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.350.36
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 36.361.0

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.

Quick answers

Is Mistral Small 3.2 24B better than o1?

It depends on the task. Among models available today, on our benchmarks and licensed sources, o1 ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge and writing.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.2 24B or o1?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B costs $0.13 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $26.25 for o1.

Run Mistral Small 3.2 24B and o1 on your own prompt

Benchmarks aren't your data. Try both side by side in the playground, with the cost of every answer.