Model comparison

Mistral 7B vs Mistral Nemo

Mistral Nemo is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Nemo in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Nemo leads 25.5 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 15.2% for Mistral 7B and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral Nemo accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Mistral 7B and Mistral Nemo specifications
Mistral 7BMistral Nemo
ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
Noometry Index23.026.4
Released2023-09-272024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window8K128K
Max output8K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.25$0.15
Results tracked3710

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
BigCodeBench Instruct19.5%—
LMArena Coding1082—
BigCodeBench Complete27.3%—
HumanEval+36%—
MBPP+42.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral 7B: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
DTBench42.5%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index112.21118.68
PIQA83%83.5%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1067—
Adversarial NLI47.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard56.1%—
HellaSwag81%—
WinoGrande75.3%—

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
MATH Level 53.7%10.8%
GSM8K54.4%84.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.3%—
LMArena Math1085—

Knowledge Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond15.2%29.9%
BoolQ87.4%82.5%
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.6%—
MMLU62.5%—
OpenBookQA79.8%—
TriviaQA75.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1012—
LMArena Chinese1009—
LMArena French1037—
LMArena German987—
LMArena Japanese878—
LMArena Russian1018—
LMArena Spanish1026—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1060—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1060—

Writing & Preference Mistral 7B leads

Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1090—
LMArena Creative Writing1068—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1062—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral 7B better than Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Nemo does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Mistral Nemo share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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