Model comparison

Mistral Large vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large costs 8.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 1 category and o1 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1 leads 36.1 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Mistral Large and 73.3% for o1.
  • Mistral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Large and o1 specifications
Mistral Largeo1
ProviderMistral AIOpenAI
Noometry Index31.940.9
Released2024-02-262024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K200K
Max output16K100K
Input $ / M tokens$2$15
Output $ / M tokens$6$60
Results tracked5152

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
LiveBench Coding47.1%69.7%
LMArena Coding12771367
HumanEval+62.2%89%
MBPP+59.5%80.2%
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
SciCode36.2%—
WeirdML—47.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct30%—
BigCodeBench Complete38.3%—
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench264.7—

Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard38.4%—
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
SimpleBench22.5%41.7%
LiveBench Reasoning43.5%91.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts12571371
DTBench65.1%74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis50.1%65.5%
LMCA16.7%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.52141.91
LiveBench48.4%75.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
ForecastBench57.1—

Math o1 leads

Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%73.3%
LiveBench Math42.5%80.3%
LMArena Math12621388
MATH Level 550.3%94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%9.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
Omni-MATH28.1%—

Knowledge o1 leads

Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
GPQA Diamond51.3%76.8%
Confabulations21.4%11.7%
LMArena Expert12321361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
MMLU-Pro59.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.5%—
GPQA (HELM)43.5%—
MMLU80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
LMArena Non-English12371358
LMArena Chinese12401394
LMArena French13251344
LMArena German12541337
LMArena Japanese11881346
LMArena Korean12021396
LMArena Russian12571356
LMArena Spanish12681345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
LiveBench Instruction Following67.9%81.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12491367
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context o1 leads

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
LMArena Longer Query12611378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Largeo1
LMArena Text12661366
LMArena Creative Writing12431348
Short-Story Creative Writing69%70.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn12601369
LiveBench Language39.4%65.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing985—
WildBench80.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large costs 8.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or o1?

Mistral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is Mistral Large or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and o1 share?

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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