# GPT-4.5 vs Mistral 7B

> GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-5-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.5 leads 52.5 to 25.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 78.6% for GPT-4.5 and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.2 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 208 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1396 | 1082 |
| Aider Polyglot | 44.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 75.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1403 | 1067 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.74 | 112.21 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 34.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 10.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 3.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 71.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 64.3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| ForecastBench | 61.7 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 69% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1412 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 78.6% | 3.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 69.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 68.7% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | 1036 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1195 | — |
| VPCT | 45% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1413 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1421 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1457 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1419 | 1018 |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 72.3% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1060 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.5 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1394 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1062 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1258 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 61.5% | — |

## FAQ

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

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.