Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 30.7.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 8K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| 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 Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium 3.1 does, with 131K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.