Granite-4.0-350M vs Mistral 8x7B v0.2

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 8x7B v0.2

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral 8x7B v0.2 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 8x7B v0.2 finishes one point ahead overall, 28 to 27. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Mistral 8x7B v0.2's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 58.8 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 16.2% to 62%.

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 8x7B v0.2
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.024%
BrowseComp34%
OSWorld-Verified28%
Coding
HumanEval38%21%
SWE-bench Verified16%
LiveCodeBench12%
SWE-bench Pro14%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro26%
OfficeQA Pro40%
Reasoning
BBH33.3%62%
MuSR25%
LongBench v239%
MRCRv238%
KnowledgeMistral 8x7B v0.2 wins
MMLU36.2%29%
GPQA26.1%28%
MMLU-Pro14.4%52%
SuperGPQA26%
HLE3%
FrontierScience35%
SimpleQA27%
Instruction FollowingMistral 8x7B v0.2 wins
IFEval61.6%67%
MultilingualMistral 8x7B v0.2 wins
MGSM16.2%62%
MMLU-ProX57%
Mathematics
AIME 202329%
AIME 202431%
AIME 202530%
HMMT Feb 202325%
HMMT Feb 202427%
HMMT Feb 202526%
BRUMO 202528%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Mistral 8x7B v0.2 is ahead overall, 28 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 16.2% and 62%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Mistral 8x7B v0.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 28.4 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Mistral 8x7B v0.2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 67 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Mistral 8x7B v0.2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 16.2. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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