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Mistral Large 2.1

Mistral

Strongest in Factual grounding (#9 of 104), weakest in Human preference (#226 of 354). Above par in 4 of 14 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind O3 and Muse Spark 1.1 and ahead of Mistral Medium 3.5 and Magistral Medium 1.2.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety54.3#67/329
Factual grounding63.8#9/104
Agents50.2#122/298
Tool use50.4#34/81
Professional47.4#130/194
Medical46.1#111/149
Finance45.8#121/162
Knowledge44#159/197
Academic knowledge35.6#107/123
Reasoning36#185/195
Science30.3#111/122
Mathematics34.8#142/152
Human preference47.6#226/354
Human preference47.6#226/354

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Mistral Large 2.1, left for the other.

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 9 · lost 0
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 9 · lost 0
Command R+won 10 · lost 0
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 8 · lost 3
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 10 · lost 4
GPT-4o miniwon 8 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 nanowon 8 · lost 5
Magistral Small 1.2won 6 · lost 4
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Magistral Medium 1.2won 5 · lost 4
Mistral Medium 3.5won 6 · lost 5
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 6 · lost 7
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 4 · lost 5
Gemma 4 31Bwon 4 · lost 5
Mistral Medium 3.1won 5 · lost 7
MiniMax M2.7won 5 · lost 8
GLM-4.7won 5 · lost 8
Command Awon 5 · lost 9
GPT OSS 20Bwon 4 · lost 8
GPT-5.4 miniwon 4 · lost 8
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 4 · lost 9
Grok 4.20won 3 · lost 7
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 4 · lost 10
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 3 · lost 8
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 3 · lost 8
MiMo V2.5won 3 · lost 8
O3 Miniwon 3 · lost 9
Qwen3.5 Flashwon 3 · lost 9
DeepSeek R1won 3 · lost 9
Grok 4.3won 3 · lost 9
GPT-4owon 3 · lost 10
GPT OSS 120Bwon 3 · lost 10
DeepSeek V3won 3 · lost 10
GPT-5.4 nanowon 3 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4won 3 · lost 10
Mistral Large 3won 3 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 3 · lost 10
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 3 · lost 10
Mistral Large 4won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5 nanowon 3 · lost 11
O4 Miniwon 3 · lost 11
DeepSeek V3.2won 3 · lost 11
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 3 · lost 11
Qwen 3.5 Pluswon 2 · lost 8
Grok 2won 2 · lost 8
GPT-6 Lunawon 2 · lost 8
Gemini 4 Argonwon 2 · lost 8
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 2 · lost 9
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 2 · lost 9
GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 9
GPT-6 Astrawon 2 · lost 9
MiniMax M2.1won 2 · lost 10
MiniMax M2.5won 2 · lost 10
Grok 4 Fastwon 2 · lost 10
Grok 3won 2 · lost 10
MiniMax M3won 2 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4.1won 2 · lost 10
GLM-5won 2 · lost 10
Gemini 3 Flashwon 2 · lost 10
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4.6won 2 · lost 10
GPT-4.1 miniwon 2 · lost 11
Kimi K2.5won 2 · lost 11
GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 11
Kimi K2.6won 2 · lost 11
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 2 · lost 11
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 2 · lost 11
GPT-5.6 Solwon 2 · lost 11
GPT-5 miniwon 2 · lost 12
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 12
Claude Haiku 4.5won 2 · lost 12
Kimi K2won 2 · lost 12
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 12
GLM-4.6won 2 · lost 12
Claude Opus 4.5won 2 · lost 12
Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 12
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 1 · lost 8
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 1 · lost 8
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 8
Qwen3 Maxwon 1 · lost 9
Grok 3 Miniwon 1 · lost 10
GLM-4.5won 1 · lost 10
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 1 · lost 10
Muse Sparkwon 1 · lost 10
Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 10
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 11
Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 11
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 1 · lost 11
Inklingwon 1 · lost 11
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 1 · lost 11
GLM-5.1won 1 · lost 11
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 11
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 1 · lost 11
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 1 · lost 11
GLM-5.2won 1 · lost 11
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 1 · lost 11
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 11
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 1 · lost 11
Grok 4won 1 · lost 12
GPT-5won 1 · lost 12
GPT-5.4won 1 · lost 12
GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 12
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 12
GPT-4.1won 1 · lost 13
GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 13
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 1 · lost 13
Claude Haiku 5.5won 0 · lost 9
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 9
Claude Sonnet 5.5won 0 · lost 9
GPT-6.1 Solwon 0 · lost 9
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 10
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 11
O1won 0 · lost 11
Inkling Smallwon 0 · lost 11
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 11
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 11
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 11
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 11
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 11
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 11
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 12
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 12
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 12
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 12
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 12
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 12
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 12
O3won 0 · lost 13

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

4 publications, 8 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1306
BFCL ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
BFCL v4 38.37%
Vals.ai ↗5 measuresread 2026-11-10
Vals · TaxEval 63.78%Vals · MedQA 76.22%Vals · GPQA Diamond 47.73%Vals · MMLU Pro 69.71%Vals · AIME 9.17%
Vectara · Factual consistency 95.5%

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