Model comparison

GLM-5.1 vs Mistral 7B

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.1 Z.ai (Zhipu)

47.6

Rank #51 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

22.9

Rank #346 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5.1 leads 55.0 to 7.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 93.3% for GLM-5.1 and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.1.
  • GLM-5.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

GLM-5.1 and Mistral 7B specifications
GLM-5.1Mistral 7B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index47.622.9
Released2026-04-072023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window200K8K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.40$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$4.40$0.25
Results tracked4137

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 48.5 (#52), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding14861082
SWE-bench Verified74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1509—
SciCode43.8%—
WeirdML57.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench887.1—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.1: 24.8 (#106), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
APEX-Agents40.9%—
ExploitBench18.1%—
GBAEval0%—
Vending-Bench 25,634—

Reasoning GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 38.2 (#57), Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
Chess Puzzles19%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14721067
Epoch Capabilities Index149.86111.97
SimpleBench55.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)77.7%—
CritPt4.6%—
Thematic Generalization69.8%—
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 49.0 (#48), Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

Knowledge GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 55.0 (#45), Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond89.9%15.2%
LMArena Expert14771036
SimpleQA Verified34%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 55.2 (#34), Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14481012
LMArena Chinese15161009
LMArena French14781036
LMArena German1466987
LMArena Japanese1436878
LMArena Russian14531018
LMArena Spanish14671026
LMArena Korean1423—

Instruction Following GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 76.5 (#41), Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14511060

Long Context GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 44.9 (#51), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14671060

Writing & Preference GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 67.2 (#29), Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mistral 7B
LMArena Text14621090
LMArena Creative Writing14541068
LMArena Multi-Turn14731062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1592—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.1 better than Mistral 7B?

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.1 or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; GLM-5.1 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

Is GLM-5.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

GLM-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.5 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.1 does, with 200K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.1 and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.1 has 41 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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