Codestral 7B on MMLU-Pro: score, rank and what it means
Codestral 7B scores 60.2 on MMLU-Pro, placing it #526 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on MMLU-Pro, with Codestral 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 2 | GPT-5.1 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $20.50 | 87.9 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
| 5 | Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $19.69 | 87.5 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 9 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro Max | Google DeepMind | 2000000 | $20.57 | 87.9 |
What this score means
On MMLU-Pro, Codestral 7B sits at #526 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 91.6, so the gap to the top is 31.4 points. The median model in this index scores 76.1, which puts Codestral 7B below the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 71.4 on this benchmark. Codestral 7B is 11.2 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 59.8. Codestral 7B is 0.4 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 60.2 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $1.05 per million input tokens, Codestral 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMLU-Pro. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3 Replicate 8B | Replicate | 32768 | $1.00 | 57.0 |
| Nemotron 4 7B | NVIDIA | 16384 | $1.05 | 56.9 |
| Pythia Base | EleutherAI | 16384 | $0.99 | 55.9 |
| Mixtral Groq 8B | Groq | 32768 | $0.77 | 54.8 |
| Codestral 7B | Mistral AI | 32768 | $1.05 | 57.0 |
| Mixtral Turbo 7B | Together AI | 8192 | $0.68 | 53.2 |
| Llama 3 Novita 7B | Novita AI | 8192 | $0.92 | 56.3 |
Other benchmarks for Codestral 7B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 54.0 | 480 | 20th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.0 | 478 | 20th | |
| HumanEval | 62.3 | 465 | 23th | |
| MATH-500 | 57.0 | 497 | 17th | |
| AIME 2025 | 42.8 | 525 | 13th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 48.0 | 465 | 23th | |
| IFEval | 69.0 | 473 | 21th | |
| TruthfulQA | 61.0 | 519 | 14th | |
| HellaSwag | 73.9 | 457 | 24th | |
| MMMU | 55.1 | 495 | 18th | |
| Arena Elo | 1243.9 | 500 | 17th |
FAQ
What score does Codestral 7B get on MMLU-Pro?
Codestral 7B scores 60.2 on MMLU-Pro in this index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the top score is 91.6.
How does Codestral 7B rank on MMLU-Pro?
It ranks #526 of 600 models, in the 12th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.
Is Codestral 7B good at MMLU-Pro?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the MMLU-Pro score calculated?
MMLU-Pro is a knowledge benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Codestral 7B cost?
Codestral 7B costs $1.05 per million input tokens and $5.23 per million output tokens.