Granite-4.0-350M vs Mistral Medium 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 Medium 3

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Medium 3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Mistral Medium 3 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 52 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Medium 3's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 70.1 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 14.4% to 77.2%.

Mistral Medium 3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.40 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Granite-4.0-350M. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Mistral Medium 3 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMistral
PriceFree*$0.40 / $2.00
SpeedN/A57 t/s
TTFTN/A1.20s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MMistral Medium 3
Agentic
Coming soon
Coding
HumanEval38%92.1%
LiveCodeBench30.3%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
BBH33.3%
KnowledgeMistral Medium 3 wins
MMLU36.2%
GPQA26.1%57.1%
MMLU-Pro14.4%77.2%
Instruction FollowingMistral Medium 3 wins
IFEval61.6%89.4%
Multilingual
MGSM16.2%
Mathematics
MATH-50091%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 is ahead overall, 52 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 14.4% and 77.2%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Mistral Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.1 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 Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89.4 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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