Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs o1-mini
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.9 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.7% for Mistral 7B and 89.2% for o1-mini.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 8K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | 78.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral 7B: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Mistral 7B leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1333 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | 135.82 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | 46.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | 89.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 62.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1316 |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | 1245 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | 1303 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
Long Context o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1320 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than o1-mini?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral 7B or o1-mini better for coding?
o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and o1-mini share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.