# Mistral 7B vs Olmo 7b Instruct

> Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 7b Instruct leads 27.8 to 7.6.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 22.9 | 29.7 |
| Rank | 346 | 293 |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1016 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 993 |
| 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)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1018 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

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

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1013 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 946 |
| LMArena French | 1036 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 978 |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1007 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral 7B or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.1 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.