# Mistral 7B vs Mistral Large 4

> Mistral Large 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Large 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-mistral-large-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Large 4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 4 leads 40.4 to 8.1.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.68 / $2.09 for Mistral Large 4.
- Mistral Large 4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 43.1 |
| Rank | 351 | 99 |
| Context | 8K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.68 |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | $2.09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
- Mistral Large 4: 48.6 (#57)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1475 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1541 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
- Mistral Large 4: 22.5 (#192)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1444 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 27.4% |
| 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

- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
- Mistral Large 4: 40.4 (#91)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1488 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
- Mistral Large 4: 36.6 (#166)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1447 |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 20% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
- Mistral Large 4: 52.6 (#82)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1415 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1491 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1414 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
- Mistral Large 4: 75.0 (#76)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1424 |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
- Mistral Large 4: 43.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1429 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
- Mistral Large 4: 60.4 (#97)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1427 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1361 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1424 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Mistral Large 4?

Mistral Large 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Large 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Mistral Large 4?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 4 lists at $0.68 and $2.09.

### Is Mistral 7B or Mistral Large 4 better for coding?

Mistral Large 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Mistral Large 4 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 4 has 15.