# Mistral 7B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

> Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 36.9 to 7.3.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 8K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 22.9 | 39.3 |
| Rank | 346 | 156 |
| Context | 8K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.06 |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | $0.16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1370 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1335 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.97 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1355 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1354 |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1292 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1036 | 1369 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1280 |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | 1213 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | 1321 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1233 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1317 |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1312 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1324 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1254 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1327 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

### Is Mistral 7B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.6 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.