# Mistral 7B vs o1-mini

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.8 to 7.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.7% for Mistral 7B and 89.2% for o1-mini.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 22.9 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 346 | 230 |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
- o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | 78.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral 7B: —
- o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
- o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1333 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.97 | 135.82 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)
- o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | 46.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | 89.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
- o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 62.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1316 |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
- o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1036 | 1292 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | 1245 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | 1302 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
- o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1321 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
- o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral 7B or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and o1-mini share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.