Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Small 3
Llama 4 Maverick leads Mistral Small 3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 9.3 to 6.7, and Mistral Small 3 costs 12.5x less per output token ($0.08 vs $1.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 36 benchmarks have a result for both.
Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Small 3: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Llama 4 Maverick for a larger context window (524K against 33K tokens) and work measured by τ²-Bench Telecom, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 36
- Llama 4 Maverick only
- 49
- Mistral Small 3 only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick leads, 9.3 against 6.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a GPQA Diamond result, 69.4%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AIME result, 25.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a MMLU Pro result, 79.4%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a Design Arena: websites result, 871.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens against 33K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Small 3
Llama 4 Maverick $0.0008, Mistral Small 3 $0.0001 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has the number, $1.491.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Llama 4 Maverick not benchmarked, Mistral Small 3 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 12.9 points apart on average over 17 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): Llama 4 Maverick 50.0% against Mistral Small 3 0.0%, 50.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Maverick $1.00 against Mistral Small 3 $0.08 per million output tokens, 12.5x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens, Mistral Small 3 33K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Llama 4 Maverick | Bars | Mistral Small 3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 5 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 17 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 35 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 15.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 21.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AA Coding Index | 16.3 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 39.7% | 25.2% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| SciCode | 31.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| ALE-Bench | 173.0 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1301 | 1246 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1299 | 1248 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.3 | 6.7 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.6 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 17.8% | 19.6% | Mistral Small 3 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 71.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 67.1% | 46.2% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.9% | 3.8% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| ARC-AGI | 4.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1281 | 1233 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1259 | 1202 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1295 | 1243 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1134 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1164 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 25.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AA Math Index | 19.3 | 4.3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.3% | 4.3% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: math | 1299 | 1240 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1295 | 1243 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 77.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 49.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 66.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 58.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 43.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.9% | 65.2% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| GeoBench | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1288 | 1235 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | 1215 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1286 | 1219 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1260 | 1205 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 871 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 896 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 837 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 882 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 900 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 879 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index170
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 35.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 54.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| IFBench | 43.0% | 26.4% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 50.0% | 0.0% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| DTBench | 61.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMCA | 15.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 62.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1234 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1267 | 1214 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1266 | 1194 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1303 | 1256 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1269 | 1198 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1277 | 1204 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: German | 1291 | 1211 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1206 | 1111 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1203 | 1188 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: French | 1259 | 1204 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1293 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1286 | 1216 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1275 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1289 | 1217 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1280 | 1246 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1277 | 1214 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1250 | 1184 | Llama 4 Maverick |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1150 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1141 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1143 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1100 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1099 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Small 3 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Mistral Small 3 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Mistral Small 3 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Meta Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Mistral AI |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | January 30, 2025 |
| Context window | 524K | 33K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.35 | $0.05 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.00 | $0.08 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.491 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Mistral Small 3 for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Maverick for a larger context window (524K against 33K tokens) and work measured by τ²-Bench Telecom, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Small 3?
Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3 costs $0.05 and $0.08. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Maverick only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Small 3?
Llama 4 Maverick, with 524K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Small 3 comparison based on?
36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Llama 4 Maverick's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Small 3's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.