Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Mistral Nemo

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 38× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 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 leads 65.3 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.3% for GPT-5.4 and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Mistral Nemo specifications
GPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index59.426.4
Released2026-03-052024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.15
Results tracked6810

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
WeirdML77.7%—
LMArena Coding1497—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
BALROG—17.6%
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
DTBench94.4%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81118.68
ARC-AGI-274%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
LMCA52%—
ForecastBench59.5—
PIQA—83.5%

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond93.3%29.9%
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
LMArena Expert1507—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Mistral Nemo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1465—
LMArena Chinese1519—
LMArena French1493—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1485—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1469—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1473—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840881
LMArena Text1469—
LMArena Creative Writing1439—
EQ-Bench 41272—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Mistral Nemo?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 38× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 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 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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