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.
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 | Mistral Nemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 26.4 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2024-07-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral 7B: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |
| BALROG | — | 17.6% |
Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 42.5% | 48.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | 118.68 |
| PIQA | 83% | 83.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math Mistral Nemo leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | 10.8% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 84.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
Knowledge Mistral Nemo leads
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 29.9% |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 881 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
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.