Model comparison
GPT-4.5 vs Mistral 7B
GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.5 leads 52.5 to 25.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 78.6% for GPT-4.5 and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.2 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2025-02-27 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1396 | 1082 |
| Aider Polyglot | 44.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 75.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1403 | 1067 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.74 | 112.21 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 34.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 10.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 3.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 71.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 64.3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| ForecastBench | 61.7 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 69% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1412 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 78.6% | 3.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 69.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 68.7% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | 1036 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71), Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1195 | — |
| VPCT | 45% | — |
Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1413 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1421 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1457 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1419 | 1018 |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 72.3% | — |
Long Context GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1060 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads
GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1394 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1062 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1258 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 61.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.5 better than Mistral 7B?
GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-4.5 or Mistral 7B better for coding?
GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and Mistral 7B share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.