Model comparison

GLM-5 vs Mistral 7B

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 6.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

46.1

Rank #66 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5 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 leads 52.3 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for GLM-5 and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $3.20 for GLM-5.
  • GLM-5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

GLM-5 and Mistral 7B specifications
GLM-5Mistral 7B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index46.123.0
Released2026-02-112023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K8K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$0.25
Results tracked4537

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 49.0 (#52), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding14611082
SWE-bench Verified72.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1434—
SWE-bench Multilingual69.7%—
WeirdML48.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench765.62—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5: 31.1 (#71), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
Terminal-Bench52.4%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking9.8%—
τ²-bench Retail73.7%—
τ²-bench Telecom86.8%—
Vending-Bench 24,432—

Reasoning GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 27.6 (#116), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
Chess Puzzles10%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14521067
Epoch Capabilities Index145.83112.21
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.8%—
ARC-AGI-144.7%—
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench61—
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 46.4 (#71), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 52.3 (#64), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond87.8%15.2%
LMArena Expert14541036
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 53.7 (#58), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14301012
LMArena Chinese15111009
LMArena French14551037
LMArena German1445987
LMArena Japanese1416878
LMArena Russian14361018
LMArena Spanish14541026
LMArena Korean1423—

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 75.2 (#67), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14281060

Long Context GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.7 (#60), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14461060
CL-bench18.7%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 66.0 (#38), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral 7B
LMArena Text14461090
LMArena Creative Writing14391068
LMArena Multi-Turn14561062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1601—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5 better than Mistral 7B?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 6.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5 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 lists at $1 and $3.20.

Is GLM-5 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5 does, with 205K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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