Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
0/8 categoriesMistral Small 4 (Reasoning)
~64
Winner · 2/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)
Pick Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 75.6 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 71.2%.
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 8B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Coding | ||
| LiveCodeBench | — | 63.6% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 60% |
| Reasoning | ||
| MuSR | 50% | — |
| KnowledgeMistral Small 4 (Reasoning) wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | 71.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | — |
| Multilingual | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| MathematicsMistral Small 4 (Reasoning) wins | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | 83.8% |
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 64 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 71.2%.
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.8 versus 66. 1-bit Bonsai 8B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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