Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Mistral

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.7 to 52.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 78.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 27.7% for Mistral.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniMistral
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index33.629.9
Released2025-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked4722

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Category by category

Coding Mistral leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
LMArena Coding13671162
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Mistral: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Mistral leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
LMArena Hard Prompts13491149
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
Omni-MATH49.1%7.2%
LMArena Math13431180
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
MMLU-Pro78.3%27.7%
GPQA (HELM)61.4%30.3%
LMArena Expert13381125
GPQA Diamond65.8%—
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Mistral: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
LMArena Non-English13181129
LMArena Chinese13291109
LMArena French13581180
LMArena German13511155
LMArena Japanese12901013
LMArena Korean12981032
LMArena Russian13241168
LMArena Spanish13191143

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
IFEval90.4%56.8%
LMArena Instruction Following13331152

Long Context Mistral leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
LMArena Longer Query13441153
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral
LMArena Text13401165
LMArena Creative Writing13001158
WildBench83.8%66%
LMArena Multi-Turn13541147
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Mistral?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Mistral better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Mistral share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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