The AI arena is free today

Open Superagent

Gemini 4 Argon vs Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Gemini 4 Argon leads the LLM Stats Score 55.1 to 4.2.

Google · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Gemini 4 Argon leads the overall LLM Stats Score 55.1 to 4.2, ranking #4 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Gemini 4 Argon

  • overall performance matters — it scores 55.1 and ranks #4 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Gemini 4 Argon
Google
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
55.1
#4
4.2
#319
Reasoning
52.4
#7
3.7
#314
Coding
44.1
#4
4.6
#219
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
— / M
$0.05 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.08 / M
Context window
—
32,768

Individual benchmarks

19 reported for Gemini 4 Argon · 8 for Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small 3 24B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct specifies input context (32,768 tokens). Only Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct specifies output context (32,768 tokens).

Google
Gemini 4 Argon
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Input32,768 tokens
Output32,768 tokens
Fri Oct 09 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Gemini 4 Argon supports multimodal inputs, whereas Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct does not.

Gemini 4 Argon can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Gemini 4 Argon

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Gemini 4 Argon is licensed under a proprietary license, while Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Gemini 4 Argon

Proprietary

Closed source

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Gemini 4 Argon was released on 2026-09-30, while Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct was released on 2025-01-30.

Gemini 4 Argon is 20 months newer than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct.

Gemini 4 Argon

Sep 30, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.7yr newer
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Jan 30, 2025

1.7 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-01, while Gemini 4 Argon's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-10-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Gemini 4 Argon's cutoff date.

Gemini 4 Argon

—

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Oct 2023

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Gemini 4 Argon
✓ Preferred
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Gemini 4 Argon vs Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct.

Which is better, Gemini 4 Argon or Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

Gemini 4 Argon leads the LLM Stats Score 55.1 to 4.2. Gemini 4 Argon is made by Google and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Gemini 4 Argon compare to Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct in benchmarks?

Gemini 4 Argon scores Graphwalks BFS <128k: 99.7%, Vibe Code Bench: 91.9%, LVBench: 91.7%, LABBench2: 88.8%, Graphwalks BFS >128k: 84.2%. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct scores Arena Hard: 87.6%, HumanEval: 84.8%, MT-Bench: 83.5%, IFEval: 82.9%, MATH: 70.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

Gemini 4 Argon supports an unknown number of tokens and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct supports 33K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (55.1 vs 4.2), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

Gemini 4 Argon is developed by Google and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI.

Related comparisons