Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Mistral

Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 37.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 71.3% for GPT-4o and 27.7% for Mistral.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Mistral specifications
GPT-4oMistral
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index28.629.9
Released2024-05-13—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7222

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Category by category

Coding Mistral leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
LMArena Coding12971162
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Mistral: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Mistral leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
LMArena Hard Prompts12811149
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Mistral leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
Omni-MATH29.3%7.2%
LMArena Math12851180
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
MMLU-Pro71.3%27.7%
GPQA (HELM)52%30.3%
LMArena Expert12501125
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Mistral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
LMArena Non-English12831129
LMArena Chinese12771109
LMArena French13041180
LMArena German12821155
LMArena Japanese12571013
LMArena Korean12341032
LMArena Russian12861168
LMArena Spanish12921143

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
IFEval81.7%56.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12781152
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
LMArena Longer Query12891153
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oMistral
LMArena Text13001165
LMArena Creative Writing12921158
WildBench82.8%66%
LMArena Multi-Turn13021147
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Mistral?

Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Mistral better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Mistral share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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