Model comparison

GLM-5.3-Flash vs Mistral 7B

GLM-5.3-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

51.8

Rank #41 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.3-Flash 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-5.3-Flash leads 58.4 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 93.9% for GLM-5.3-Flash and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

GLM-5.3-Flash and Mistral 7B specifications
GLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index51.823.0
Released2026-08-202023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M8K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.50$0.25
Results tracked4037

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.1 (#31), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Coding15081082
DeepSWE63.4%—
FrontierCode31.8%—
CursorBench36.8%—
LMArena WebDev1609—
FrontierSWE18.1%—
SciCode51.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench303.55—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 34.2 (#47), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
APEX-Agents52.8%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 48.0 (#42), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles14%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14911067
Epoch Capabilities Index151.88112.21
ARC-AGI-265.8%—
ARC-AGI-191%—
CritPt15.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles8%—
DTBench—42.5%
Surface Evolver Bench52.5%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
Bench to the Future 30.15—
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.3 (#47), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.9%0.3%
LMArena Math15001085
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
ProofBench21%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 58.4 (#36), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond90.2%15.2%
LMArena Expert15131036
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 42.8 (#27), Mistral 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1296—

Multilingual GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 56.0 (#25), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14621012
LMArena Chinese15271009
LMArena French14961037
LMArena German1470987
LMArena Japanese1429878
LMArena Russian14691018
LMArena Spanish14711026
LMArena Korean1446—

Instruction Following GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 77.5 (#20), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14781060

Long Context GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 45.4 (#39), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14821060

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 65.3 (#50), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMistral 7B
LMArena Text14711090
LMArena Creative Writing14421068
LMArena Multi-Turn14671062

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.3-Flash better than Mistral 7B?

GLM-5.3-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3-Flash or Mistral 7B?

GLM-5.3-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

Is GLM-5.3-Flash or Mistral 7B better for coding?

GLM-5.3-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3-Flash and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.3-Flash has 40 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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