# GPT-5.1 vs Mistral 7B

> GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-1-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 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 GPT-5.1 leads 52.2 to 8.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.6% for GPT-5.1 and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1.
- GPT-5.1 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 49.0 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 53 | 351 |
| Context | 400K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1082 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1395 | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| GSO | 13.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,192 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 47.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1199 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,473 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 32% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1457 | 1067 |
| DTBench | 90.1% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.64 | 112.21 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 17.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 72.8% | — |
| CritPt | 4.9% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 11.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 95.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 72.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| ForecastBench | 58.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 78.8% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.6% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1447 | 1085 |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 94.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 31% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 12.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1470 | 1036 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 57.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | — |
| VPCT | 58.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1450 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1438 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1401 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1443 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 93.3% | — |
| IFEval | 93.5% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1447 | 1060 |
| CL-bench | 23.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1427 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1450 | 1062 |
| WildBench | 86.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 80.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.1 better than Mistral 7B?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1 or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1 lists at $1.25 and $10.

### Is GPT-5.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1 does, with 400K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.