# Mistral vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1 leads 41.5 to 16.3.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 297 | 140 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.2 (#249)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral: —
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 21.3 (#199)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1372 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.92 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Mistral: 20.5 (#275)
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.3 (#283)
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1362 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral: —
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 33.0 (#249)
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1179 | 1343 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1012 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.9 (#283)
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#240)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1154 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.2 (#255)
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Mistral | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1368 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral and o1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.