Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Mistral 7B
Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 46.7 to 30.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Granite 4.0 Micro accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 8K |
| Max output | 118K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 0.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 15.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Mistral 7B?
Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Mistral 7B?
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.
Which has the bigger context window?
Granite 4.0 Micro does, with 131K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Mistral 7B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.