# Granite-4.0-1B vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite-4.0-1B and Mistral Small 3.1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-0-1b-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Treat this as a split decision: use the category and benchmark breakdown to decide which profile better matches your workload.

## Summary

- Granite-4.0-1B and Mistral Small 3.1 are tied on overall score, so the decision depends on category fit rather than the headline number.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro in Knowledge, with scores of 34.0% and 66.8%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Mistral |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 74% | 88.4% | Mistral Small 3.1 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 60.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: 18.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 64.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 49.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 59.4% | 80.6% | Mistral Small 3.1 |
| GPQA | 29.9% | 46.0% | Mistral Small 3.1 |
| MMLU-Pro | 34.0% | 66.8% | Mistral Small 3.1 |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 10.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 37.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite-4.0-1B or Mistral Small 3.1?

Granite-4.0-1B and Mistral Small 3.1 are tied on overall score in the current BenchLM data.

### How many benchmarks does Granite-4.0-1B cover on BenchLM?

Granite-4.0-1B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Mistral Small 3.1 cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Small 3.1 currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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