Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Mistral Nemo

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Nemo in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index33.626.4
Released2025-04-142024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$0.15
Results tracked4710

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
DTBench68.8%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01118.68
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
LMCA21.1%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Mistral Nemo leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
MATH Level 587.3%10.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond65.8%29.9%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1358—
LMArena German1351—
LMArena Japanese1290—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1333—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147881
LMArena Text1340—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Mistral Nemo?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

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

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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