Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Mistral Nemo

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.6 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.6% for GPT-5.1 and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1.
  • GPT-5.1 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Mistral Nemo specifications
GPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index49.026.4
Released2025-11-132024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.15
Results tracked6310

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
WeirdML60.8%—
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
LMArena Coding1454—
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG—17.6%
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
DTBench90.1%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64118.68
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
CritPt4.9%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1457—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
ForecastBench58.1—
LiveBench78.8%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
LMArena Math1447—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond87.6%29.9%
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
LMArena Expert1470—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Mistral Nemo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1495—
LMArena French1450—
LMArena German1438—
LMArena Japanese1453—
LMArena Korean1401—
LMArena Russian1435—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1443—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1447—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Mistral Nemo
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1427—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
WildBench86.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1450—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Mistral Nemo?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1 or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1 does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Mistral Nemo share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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