Mistral Nemo
Shares rank 63 of 72 language models by recommenders
People recommend it as a small free model that punches above its weight class. Critics say it still trails ChatGPT and sometimes produces gibberish.
People recommend it as a small free model that punches above its weight class. Critics say it still trails ChatGPT and sometimes produces gibberish.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Loved classic that people still use
“classic masterpiece Mistral Nemo”
Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Mistral raises €3B” “I still have a pet Mistral NeMo”
Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: Are past LLM models getting dumber?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Behind ChatGPT in capability
“it seemed to punch above its weight class. But it's still far enough behind ChatGPT et al.”
Comment from 28 Feb 2026 in “How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?” Sometimes produces gibberish output
“Some of them are good. Others randomly break into gibberish and Chinese poetry(?).”
Comment from 27 Apr 2026 in “France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American”
Other language models people recommend
The four most recommended other language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Mistral NemoThis page | 7 | 2 | 78% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“classic masterpiece Mistral Nemo”
“The closest thing was Mistral NeMo, but a significant part of the credit there goes to the Mistral team”
“it seems promising/better than Mistral Nemo at a lower file size.”
“The function calling template is just broken for Nemo.”
“Some of them are good. Others randomly break into gibberish and Chinese poetry(?).”
“is good at both coding and business document analysis tasks”
“it seemed to punch above its weight class. But it's still far enough behind ChatGPT et al.”
“I still have a pet Mistral NeMo”
“Mistral Large & Nemo are just convinced that front shot is better than portrait.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.