Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs Mistral Small

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.8

Rank #158 Confirmed

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Small in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.5V leads 37.4 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 59.8% for GLM-4.5V and 37.8% for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $1.80 for GLM-4.5V.
  • Mistral Small accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 64K.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and Mistral Small specifications
GLM-4.5VMistral Small
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index39.833.4
Released2025-08-112024-02-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window64K262K
Max output16K256K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$1.80$0.60
Results tracked1539

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Coding13471362
SciCode—26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%

Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%37.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13341335
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
LiveBench—44%

Math GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Math13541341
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
LiveBench Math—39.9%
MATH Level 5—46.8%

Knowledge GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Expert13531291
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92), Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Vision11541142

Multilingual Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Non-English13031315
LMArena Chinese13371340
LMArena Russian12981324
LMArena Spanish13361346
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1340
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1259

Instruction Following GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following13111310
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%

Long Context Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query13041327

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMistral Small
LMArena Text13331338
LMArena Creative Writing12951305
LMArena Multi-Turn13321344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than Mistral Small?

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Mistral Small?

Mistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5V lists at $0.60 and $1.80.

Is GLM-4.5V or Mistral Small better for coding?

GLM-4.5V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small does, with 262K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and Mistral Small share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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