The best Mistral model for building UI components is Mistral Large 3 2512, rated 1137 on Design Arena's component board — buttons, forms, modals and cards judged by blind human preference. Mistral Medium 3.5 (1115) and Codestral 2508 (1052) round out the top three.
AI models ranked by Design Arena Elo in the UI-component category — generating individual interface components (buttons, forms, modals, cards) rather than whole pages, judged head-to-head by humans. Component work is where most frontend time actually goes, and it rewards different things than page generation: consistent spacing, sane state handling and styling that matches the surrounding system.
The best Mistral model for building UI components is Mistral Large 3 2512, rated 1137 on Design Arena's component board — buttons, forms, modals and cards judged by blind human preference. Mistral Medium 3.5 (1115) and Codestral 2508 (1052) round out the top three.
Mistral Medium 3.5 (1115) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Codestral 2508 (1052). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 18 Mistral models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Mistral Medium 3.5. 3 of them qualify for this ranking.