Model comparison
Mistral vs o1-mini
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 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 16.6.
Side by side
| Mistral | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 34.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding o1-mini leads
Mistral: 33.8 (#250), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Mistral: 22.2 (#200), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1333 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
Math o1-mini leads
Mistral: 22.3 (#278), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1358 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Mistral: 16.6 (#288), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1316 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Mistral: 32.8 (#254), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1180 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1303 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Mistral: 52.6 (#288), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
Long Context o1-mini leads
Mistral: 35.0 (#245), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | 1320 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Mistral: 37.0 (#260), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Mistral | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral better than o1-mini?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral or o1-mini better for coding?
o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral and o1-mini share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.