Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
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- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 37.5 to 7.4.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 8K.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 40.0 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.20 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1375 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1337 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| 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 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1356 |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1295 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1359 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | 1366 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1253 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | 1345 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1238 |
Instruction Following Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1318 |
Long Context Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1314 |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1327 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1254 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1328 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.
Is Mistral 7B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.