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Mistral Small 3 vs GPT-4o

Mistral Mistral Small 3 vs OpenAI GPT-4o — side-by-side specs.

Mistral
Mistral Small 3
OpenAI
GPT-4o
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateJan 2025May 13 2024
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGPT-4o shipped 233 days before Mistral Small 3

Which is better: Mistral Small 3 or GPT-4o?

Mistral Small 3 and GPT-4o do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. GPT-4o shipped 233 days before Mistral Small 3, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Small 3 is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-4o is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Mistral Small 3 released?
Mistral Small 3 was released by Mistral on Jan 2025.
When was GPT-4o released?
GPT-4o was released by OpenAI on May 13 2024.
Is Mistral Small 3 or GPT-4o open source?
Mistral Small 3 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. GPT-4o is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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