Model comparison
Mistral Medium vs Mistral Nemo
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 28.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 81.6% for Mistral Medium and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 26.4 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2024-07-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 262K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 36 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | 27.6% |
| BALROG | — | 17.6% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 75.5% | 48.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.68 |
| PIQA | — | 83.5% |
Math Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | 10.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1408 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 84.2% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | 29.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 82.5% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | — |
| LMArena French | 1459 | — |
| LMArena German | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 881 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium better than Mistral Nemo?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium or Mistral Nemo?
Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Mistral Nemo share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.