Model comparison

GPT-5.4 mini vs Mistral Nemo

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI

45.0

Rank #76 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 mini 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-5.4 mini leads 51.5 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 86.9% for GPT-5.4 mini and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $4.50 for GPT-5.4 mini.
  • GPT-5.4 mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 mini and Mistral Nemo specifications
GPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index45.026.4
Released2026-03-172024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$4.50$0.15
Results tracked4610

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 45.2 (#72), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
FrontierCode27%—
LMArena WebDev1397—
SciCode49.9%—
WeirdML60.3%—
LMArena Coding1438—
ALE-Bench1,189—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 29.9 (#81), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
DeepResearch Bench36.3%—
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 30.4 (#85), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
DTBench80%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index148.84118.68
ARC-AGI-218.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)61.8%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt10%—
Chess Puzzles24%—
Thematic Generalization61.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1424—
Mystery Game Puzzles11%—
LMCA40.8%—
ForecastBench57—
PIQA—83.5%

Math GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 45.5 (#75), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 49.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%—
ProofBench21%—
LMArena Math1419—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)28.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 51.5 (#67), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond86.9%29.9%
SimpleQA Verified29.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
LMArena Expert1435—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 39.7 (#56), Mistral Nemo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1245—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 51.9 (#96), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1405—
LMArena Chinese1446—
LMArena French1440—
LMArena German1409—
LMArena Japanese1374—
LMArena Korean1368—
LMArena Russian1417—
LMArena Spanish1405—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 74.1 (#102), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1405—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 43.0 (#112), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1407—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 64.0 (#58), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1665881
LMArena Text1412—
LMArena Creative Writing1370—
LMArena Multi-Turn1429—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 mini better than Mistral Nemo?

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 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-5.4 mini lists at $0.75 and $4.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 mini does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 mini and Mistral Nemo share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 mini has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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