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.

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

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 and Mistral 7B specifications
GPT-4.5Mistral 7B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index37.223.0
Released2025-02-272023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked4237

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding13961082
Aider Polyglot44.9%—
WeirdML39.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
LiveBench Coding75.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
Cybench17.5%—

Reasoning Too close to call

GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14031067
Epoch Capabilities Index136.74112.21
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench34.5%—
ARC-AGI-110.3%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval3.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning71.1%—
DTBench—42.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis64.3%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench61.7—
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench69%—
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%0.3%
LMArena Math14121085
MATH Level 578.6%3.7%
LiveBench Math69.3%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond68.7%15.2%
LMArena Expert13941036
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
Confabulations13.6%—
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: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Vision1195—
VPCT45%—

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14131012
LMArena Chinese14211009
LMArena French14181037
LMArena German1457987
LMArena Japanese1416878
LMArena Russian14191018
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Spanish—1026

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14041060
LiveBench Instruction Following72.3%—

Long Context GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14061060
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.5Mistral 7B
LMArena Text14171090
LMArena Creative Writing13941068
LMArena Multi-Turn14441062
Short-Story Creative Writing75.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1258—
LiveBench Language61.5%—

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.

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