Model comparison

Mistral Nemo vs o1-mini

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Nemo scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.9 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 10.8% for Mistral Nemo and 89.2% for o1-mini.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Nemo and o1-mini specifications
Mistral Nemoo1-mini
ProviderMistral AIOpenAI
Noometry Index26.434.0
Released2024-07-012024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked1039

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
WeirdML—36.3%
LiveBench Coding—48%
LMArena Coding—1362
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use o1-mini leads

Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.6%—
Cybench—10%
BALROG17.6%—

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
Epoch Capabilities Index118.68135.82
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—18.1%
ARC-AGI-1—14%
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1333
DTBench48.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LiveBench—57.8%
PIQA83.5%—

Math o1-mini leads

Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
MATH Level 510.8%89.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—46.9%
LiveBench Math—62%
LMArena Math—1358
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%
GSM8K84.2%—

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
GPQA Diamond29.9%62.4%
Confabulations—18.6%
LMArena Expert—1316
BoolQ82.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
LMArena Non-English—1289
LMArena Chinese—1314
LMArena French—1293
LMArena German—1278
LMArena Japanese—1245
LMArena Korean—1223
LMArena Russian—1283
LMArena Spanish—1303

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1304

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query—1320

Writing & Preference o1-mini leads

Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Nemoo1-mini
LMArena Text—1317
LMArena Creative Writing—1244
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing881—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Nemo better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Nemo and o1-mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Nemo has 10 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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