Granite-4.0-350M vs Mistral 7B v0.3

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Granite-4.0-350M· Mistral 7B v0.3

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral 7B v0.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Mistral 7B v0.3 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 29 versus 27. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Mistral 7B v0.3's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 31.5 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 36.2% to 60.1%.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMistral
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MMistral 7B v0.3
Agentic
Coming soon
Coding
HumanEval38%30.5%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
BBH33.3%
KnowledgeMistral 7B v0.3 wins
MMLU36.2%60.1%
GPQA26.1%
MMLU-Pro14.4%
FrontierScience34%
SimpleQA28%
Instruction Following
IFEval61.6%
Multilingual
MGSM16.2%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Mistral 7B v0.3 is ahead overall, 29 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 36.2% and 60.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Mistral 7B v0.3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.5 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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