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

Mistral Large 3 7B scores 52.6 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #419 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
52.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#419
of 600
Percentile
30th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
32.5
points

Score distribution

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Mistral Large 3 7B sits at #419 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 32.5 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Mistral Large 3 7B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 58.1 on this benchmark. Mistral Large 3 7B is 5.5 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 41.2. Mistral Large 3 7B is 11.4 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 52.6 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 LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
ERNIE 4.0 Nano Baidu 32768 $4.68 62.1
StableLM 2 Base Stability AI 8192 $1.49 61.9
Auto Mini OpenRouter 4096 $4.24 61.6
GPT-NeoX EleutherAI 16384 $1.57 61.7
Mistral Large 3 7B Mistral AI 32768 $1.44 61.1
SmolLM3 Base Hugging Face 16384 $1.38 60.4
DeepSeek-R1 8B DeepSeek 16384 $1.87 64.3

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
IFEval 68.9 476 21th
TruthfulQA 64.4 466 22th
HellaSwag 75.6 432 28th
MMMU 58.8 443 26th
Arena Elo 1286.0 438 27th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Large 3 7B get on LiveCodeBench?

Mistral Large 3 7B scores 52.6 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Mistral Large 3 7B rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #419 of 600 models, in the 30th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Mistral Large 3 7B good at LiveCodeBench?

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 LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench is a coding 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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