# GLM-4.5 vs Mistral 7B

> GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-4-5-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.5 leads 39.0 to 8.1.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
- GLM-4.5 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.0 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 122 | 351 |
| Context | 131K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.60 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $2.20 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1082 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 54.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 40.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 344.82 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1067 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1427 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1433 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 11.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1417 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1407 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1415 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1060 |

## Long Context

- GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1412 | 1060 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1430 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1395 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1415 | 1062 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1343 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-4.5 better than Mistral 7B?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

### Is GLM-4.5 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.5 does, with 131K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Mistral 7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.