Model comparison
GPT-4o vs Mistral Nemo
GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4o's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Nemo in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 28.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 53.3% for GPT-4o and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.6 | 26.4 |
| Released | 2024-05-13 | 2024-07-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 16K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 72 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 31% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 45.3% | — |
| GSO | 0% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 51.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1297 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.1% | — |
| CadEval | 26% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 87.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Nemo leads
GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 32.3% | 17.6% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |
| GDPval | 9.9% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 8.6% | — |
| Cybench | 12.5% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1006 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 40.8% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads
GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 64.5% | 48.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.97 | 118.68 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 17.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 13% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 55.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| LMCA | 16.6% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 55.3% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83.5% |
Math Mistral Nemo leads
GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 53.3% | 10.8% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 29.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 49.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1285 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 84.2% |
Knowledge GPT-4o leads
GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.2% | 29.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 26% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 71.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1250 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 82.5% |
| MMLU | 88.1% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1137 | — |
| Video-MME | 71.9% | — |
| GeoBench | 71% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| ScienceQA | 88.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | — |
| LMArena French | 1304 | — |
| LMArena German | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1292 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 68.6% | — |
| IFEval | 81.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1278 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads
GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1300 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 881 |
| WildBench | 82.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1302 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 47.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o better than Mistral Nemo?
GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4o's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Mistral Nemo?
Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Mistral Nemo share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.