Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning) vs Mistral 7B Instruct

IBM · Mistral · catalog 2026-09-14

Trade-off: Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning) is cheaper ($0.052 vs $0.25/M); Mistral 7B Instruct scores higher on intelligence (5 vs 4.9).

	Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)	Mistral 7B Instruct
Speed (tok/s)	40.3 measured	82.1 measured
Blended $/M	$0.052 derived	$0.25 derived
Intelligence index	4.9 measured	5 measured
TTFT (ms)	1007 measured	76 measured
Context	—	—
Coding index	not measured for both
Agentic index	not measured for both

Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning) card · Mistral 7B Instruct card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.