# Mistral Large vs Olmo 7b Instruct

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Large leads 67.9 to 49.0.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 263 | 295 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 1016 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 993 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1018 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1325 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 978 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 1007 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.