Model comparison

GLM-4.5 vs Mistral Large

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Large in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.5 leads 39.0 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 11.3% for GLM-4.5 and 21.4% for Mistral Large.
  • GLM-4.5 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.

Side by side

GLM-4.5 and Mistral Large specifications
GLM-4.5Mistral Large
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index42.031.9
Released2025-07-272024-02-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K131K
Max output98K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$2
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$6
Results tracked2751

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Coding14341277
ALE-Bench344.82264.7
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)54.2%—
SciCode—36.2%
WeirdML40.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
AlgoTune1.52—
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%

Reasoning GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Hard Prompts14291257
SimpleBench—22.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
DTBench—65.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LMCA—16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—48.4%

Math GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Math14271262
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.5%
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
Confabulations11.3%21.4%
LMArena Expert14331232
GPQA Diamond—51.3%
Humanity's Last Exam8.3%—
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
MMLU—80%

Multilingual GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English14171237
LMArena Chinese14651240
LMArena French14181325
LMArena German14071254
LMArena Japanese14151188
LMArena Korean13801202
LMArena Russian14141257
LMArena Spanish14541268

Instruction Following GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following14041249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Too close to call

GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query14121261
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Text14301266
LMArena Creative Writing13951243
Short-Story Creative Writing73.4%69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1343985
LMArena Multi-Turn14151260
WildBench—80.1%
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5 better than Mistral Large?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or Mistral Large?

GLM-4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Is GLM-4.5 or Mistral Large better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Mistral Large share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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