Mistral 8x7B vs GPT-4.1 nano

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

Mistral 8x7B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 57 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral 8x7B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 65.1 against 9.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 67 to 9.8. GPT-4.1 nano does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4.1 nano gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral 8x7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 nano only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Knowledge

GPT-4.1 nano

Mistral 8x7B

54

GPT-4.1 nano

65.2

65
MMLU
80.1
64
GPQA
50.3
62
SuperGPQA
-
60
OpenBookQA
-
65
MMLU-Pro
-
8
HLE
-

Coding

Mistral 8x7B
55
HumanEval
-
28
SWE-bench Verified
-
23
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Mistral 8x7B

Mistral 8x7B

65.1

GPT-4.1 nano

9.8

65
AIME 2023
-
67
AIME 2024
9.8
66
AIME 2025
-
61
HMMT Feb 2023
-
63
HMMT Feb 2024
-
62
HMMT Feb 2025
-
64
BRUMO 2025
-
73
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Mistral 8x7B
63
SimpleQA
-
61
MuSR
-
76
BBH
-

Instruction Following

GPT-4.1 nano

Mistral 8x7B

78

GPT-4.1 nano

83.2

78
IFEval
83.2

Multilingual

Mistral 8x7B
74
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral 8x7B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Mistral 8x7B is ahead overall, 57 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 67 and 9.8.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral 8x7B or GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.2 versus 54. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mistral 8x7B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.1 versus 9.8. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral 8x7B or GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83.2 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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