Model comparison

Mistral Medium vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.2 to 26.0.

Side by side

Mistral Medium and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Mistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
ProviderMistral AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index36.029.7
Released2023-12-11—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$7.50—
Results tracked3610

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium leads

Mistral Medium: 33.8 (#241), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding14341016
FrontierCode8%—
SciCode40.2%—
WeirdML43.7%—
ALE-Bench763.98—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#84), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.7%—

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

Mistral Medium: 23.3 (#165), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1426993
Kagi LLM Benchmark50%—
CritPt0%—
DTBench75.5%—
LMCA26.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench26.9%—

Math Too close to call

Mistral Medium: 27.2 (#238), Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math14091018
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202532.2%—
ProofBench9%—
MATH Level 581.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 24.9 (#260), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond59.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate22.7%—
LMArena Expert1408—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 34.6 (#82), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Vision1172—

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

Mistral Medium: 52.3 (#86), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1408977
LMArena Chinese14481013
LMArena Russian1411946
LMArena French1460—
LMArena German1433—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1382—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

Mistral Medium: 73.9 (#111), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1398978

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#108), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1406—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

Mistral Medium: 60.2 (#97), Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text14241032
LMArena Creative Writing1391990
LMArena Multi-Turn14181007
Short-Story Creative Writing77.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mistral Medium or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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