Mistral Small 3 vs GPT-4o
Mistral Mistral Small 3 | OpenAI GPT-4o | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jan 2025 | May 13 2024 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 12% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | GPT-4o shipped 233 days before Mistral Small 3 | |
Which is better: Mistral Small 3 or GPT-4o?
Mistral Small 3 and GPT-4o don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. GPT-4o shipped 233 days before Mistral Small 3, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Mistral Small 3 is open weight, while GPT-4o is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Small 3 and GPT-4o don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Mistral Small 3 was released by Mistral on Jan 2025.
GPT-4o was released by OpenAI on May 13 2024.
Mistral Small 3 is an open weight model released by Mistral. GPT-4o is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.
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