Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Mistral

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 85.6 to 22.3.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Mistral specifications
GPT-5.6 SolMistral
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index65.029.9
Released2026-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6522

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Coding14981162
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1618—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
GSO76.5%—
WeirdML89.4%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7), Mistral: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
APEX-Agents51.4%—
OSWorld 2.027.3%—
τ²-bench Banking46.9%—
PostTrainBench36.2%—
BALROG60%—
GBAEval52.6%—
GDP.pdf30.7%—
LMArena Search1257—
Vending-Bench 29,619—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Hard Prompts14841149
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
SimpleBench71.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt32.3%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index161.66—

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Math14741180
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
Omni-MATH—7.2%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Expert15161125
GPQA Diamond93.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9), Mistral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Non-English14521129
LMArena Chinese15271109
LMArena French14771180
LMArena German14761155
LMArena Japanese14711013
LMArena Korean14421032
LMArena Russian14681168
LMArena Spanish14411143

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Instruction Following14821152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Longer Query14801153

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolMistral
LMArena Text14571165
LMArena Creative Writing14481158
LMArena Multi-Turn14601147
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
WildBench—66%
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Mistral?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Mistral better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 65 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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