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Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B

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Winner summary

Llama 4 Maverick wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

Category leads
general·Llama 4 Maverickknowledge·Llama 4 Maverickmath·Llama 4 Maverick
Hype vs Reality
Llama 4 Maverick
#262 by perf·#18 by attention
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Mistral Small 3.1 24B
#194 by perf·no signal
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Best value
1.3x better value than Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick
66.4 pts/$
$0.42/M
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
86.5 pts/$
$0.45/M
Vendor risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Low risk
Mistral AI logo
Mistral AI
$14.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Llama 4 MaverickMistral Small 3.1 24B
Dtbench
Llama 4 Maverick leads by +5.4
Llama 4 Maverick
36.5
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
31.1
GPQA diamond
Llama 4 Maverick leads by +26.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Llama 4 Maverick
56.0
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
30.0
MATH level 5
Llama 4 Maverick leads by +26.2
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Llama 4 Maverick
73.0
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
46.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Llama 4 Maverick leads by +14.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Llama 4 Maverick
20.5
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
5.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Small 3.1 24B
Dtbench
36.531.1
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
56.030.0
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
73.046.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
20.55.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Meta logoLlama 4 Maverick$0.19$0.651.0M tokens (~524 books)$3.04
Mistral AI logoMistral Small 3.1 24B$0.35$0.56128K tokens (~64 books)$4.02