Best LLMs for Game Development — Mistral
The best Mistral model for game development is Mistral Large 3 2512, rated 1125 on Design Arena's game-dev board for playable games and game mechanics. Mistral Medium 3.5 (1124) and Ministral 3 14B 2512 (1083) round out the top three.
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mistral-large-2512ToolsJSONVision$0.500/M · 35 t/s · 873ms ttft1125Elo - 2mistral-medium-3-5ReasoningToolsJSON+129.9 intel · $1.50/M · 152 t/s1124Elo
- 3ministral-14b-2512ToolsJSONVision$0.200/M · 41 t/s · 382ms ttft1083Elo
- 4ministral-8b-2512ToolsJSONVision$0.150/M · 49 t/s · 377ms ttft1035Elo
- 5codestral-2508ToolsJSON$0.300/M · 43 t/s · 273ms ttft1012Elo
- 6ministral-3b-2512ToolsJSONVision$0.100/M · 31 t/s · 355ms ttft993Elo
How this is ranked
AI models ranked by Design Arena Elo in the game-development category — building playable games and game mechanics, judged head-to-head by humans. Games are the hardest kind of generated code to fake: the result either runs and plays or it doesn't, which makes this ranking unusually honest about a model's ability to hold state, physics and a game loop together.
Frequently asked
What is the best Mistral model for game development?
The best Mistral model for game development is Mistral Large 3 2512, rated 1125 on Design Arena's game-dev board for playable games and game mechanics. Mistral Medium 3.5 (1124) and Ministral 3 14B 2512 (1083) round out the top three.
What's a good alternative to Mistral Large 3 2512?
Mistral Medium 3.5 (1124) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Ministral 3 14B 2512 (1083). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
How many Mistral models are there?
modelgrep tracks 18 Mistral models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Mistral Medium 3.5. 6 of them qualify for this ranking.