# GLM-5.3 vs Mistral 7B

> GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.3 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-5.3 leads 62.3 to 8.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.1% for GLM-5.3 and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.3.
- GLM-5.3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 8K.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 54.8 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 26 | 351 |
| Context | 1M | 8K |
| Input $/M | $1.40 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $4.40 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1496 | 1082 |
| DeepSWE | 69% | — |
| FrontierCode | 40.1% | — |
| CursorBench | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1622 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 30.2% | — |
| SciCode | 59% | — |
| WeirdML | 75.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,317 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 56.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 8,164 | — |

## Reasoning

- GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 21% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | 1067 |
| DTBench | 87.7% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.61 | 112.21 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.2% | — |
| CritPt | 19.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 33% | — |
| LMCA | 55.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.15 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.1% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1489 | 1085 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 68.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | — |
| ProofBench | 49% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.9% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1516 | 1036 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1457 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1528 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1499 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1499 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1463 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1460 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1472 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1477 | 1060 |

## Long Context

- GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1482 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1471 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1457 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1472 | 1062 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2075 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-5.3 better than Mistral 7B?

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3 or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; GLM-5.3 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

### Is GLM-5.3 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3 does, with 1M tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3 and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.3 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.