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Mistral Large 3 7B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Mistral Large 3 7B scores 1286.0 on Arena Elo, placing it #438 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1286.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#438
of 600
Percentile
27th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
215.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Mistral Large 3 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, Mistral Large 3 7B sits at #438 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 215.9 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Mistral Large 3 7B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 1329.1 on this benchmark. Mistral Large 3 7B is 43.1 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 1224.7. Mistral Large 3 7B is 61.3 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 1286.0 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 $1.44 per million input tokens, Mistral Large 3 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
QwQ 8B Alibaba Cloud 16384 $1.37 59.5
Llama 4 Maverick 7B Meta AI 4096 $1.52 61.9
Qwen3-Coder 8B Alibaba Cloud 32768 $1.43 61.3
Embed 4 Cohere 32768 $4.79 63.8
Mistral Large 3 7B Mistral AI 32768 $1.44 61.1
Qwen3 7B Alibaba Cloud 32768 $1.37 59.8
Magistral 8B Mistral AI 4096 $1.33 60.0

Other benchmarks for Mistral Large 3 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 65.6 444 26th
GPQA Diamond 55.9 450 25th
SWE-bench Verified 49.1 428 29th
HumanEval 66.1 430 28th
MATH-500 63.2 434 28th
AIME 2025 52.3 442 26th
LiveCodeBench 52.6 419 30th
IFEval 68.9 476 21th
TruthfulQA 64.4 466 22th
HellaSwag 75.6 432 28th
MMMU 58.8 443 26th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Large 3 7B get on Arena Elo?

Mistral Large 3 7B scores 1286.0 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Mistral Large 3 7B rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #438 of 600 models, in the 27th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Mistral Large 3 7B good at Arena Elo?

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 Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference 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 Mistral Large 3 7B cost?

Mistral Large 3 7B costs $1.44 per million input tokens and $7.37 per million output tokens.

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