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GPT-4 vs Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 leads GPT-4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 38.4 to 6.7, and Mistral Large 4 costs 14.4x less per output token ($4.18 vs $60.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 29 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4 Replace Mistral Large 4
GPT-4OpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$60.00
0
Mistral Large 4Mistral AI
Coding
56.4
Overall
54.6
Output $/M
$4.18
29
vs boards won of 29 shared

GPT-4 or Mistral Large 4: which to pick

Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT-4 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Compare them on price, context and the boards below.

Model AGPT-4OpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BMistral Large 4Mistral AI56.4/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
Shared results
29
GPT-4 only
16
Mistral Large 4 only
52
Like-for-like categories
6 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
GPT-4 not benchmarked, Mistral Large 4 56.4 from 5 benchmarks.
Widest category
Knowledge, 45.3 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena Text: Chinese: GPT-4 1184 against Mistral Large 4 1492, 51.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4 $60.00 against Mistral Large 4 $4.18 per million output tokens, 14.4x apart.
Context window
GPT-4 takes 8K tokens, Mistral Large 4 1.05M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-4BarsMistral Large 4Ties
Coding02
Intelligence02
Reasoning03
Math02
Knowledge04
General016
All shared boards029
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
SWE-bench Verified22.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
SWE-bench Lite39.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
SWE-bench (full test set)12.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LiveBench codingNot measured60.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LMArena WebDevNot measured1543Only Mistral Large 4 measured
AA Coding Index13.1Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured27.8%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured78.4%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured30.6%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured45.3%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)Not measured33.1%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured14.3%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
SciCodeNot measured54.2%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
FrontierCodeNot measured39.4%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured1213.2Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LMArena Text: coding12091478Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: software and IT11951467Mistral Large 4
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1559Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1487Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
AA Intelligence Index6.738.4Mistral Large 4
Epoch Capabilities Index125.7150.0Mistral Large 4
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
LiveBench researchNot measured28.1%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LiveBench browserNot measured8.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured11.8%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured54.7%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured30.4%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured31.7%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured17.5%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured56.2%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)Not measured67.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
LiveBench reasoningNot measured83.9%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)Not measured12.2%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)34.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured35.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured88.1%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured33.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured17.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts12001444Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: expert11491444Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English12091442Mistral Large 4
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1288Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured98.3%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured58.6%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured26.8%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
ProofBenchNot measured10.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
GSM8K92.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text: math12301469Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: mathematical work12281462Mistral Large 4
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured40.7%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)56.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured20.0%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
MMLU86.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
AI2 Reasoning Challenge96.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text: science11771448Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare11451433Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: legal and government11911425Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: business and finance11451439Mistral Large 4
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1257Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1272Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1225Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1275Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1252Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1259Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1232Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1202Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LiveBench designNot measured65.6%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index016
General benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
LiveBench data analysisNot measured76.5%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured80.4%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
IFBench33.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)Not measured81.3%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
DTBench62.7%88.2%Mistral Large 4
LMCA17.1%35.8%Mistral Large 4
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured28.1%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Furniture assemblyNot measured20.8%Only Mistral Large 4 measured
HellaSwag95.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
WinoGrande87.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text12061431Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: instruction following12011422Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: creative writing11911363Mistral Large 4
LMArena VisionNot measured1272Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LMArena Text: English12201433Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: non-English11941422Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: Chinese11841492Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: German1198Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text: Japanese11371415Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: Korean1087Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text: French12201492Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: Spanish11971455Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: Russian11951417Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: Polish1265Not measuredOnly GPT-4 measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn12061435Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: longer queries11901428Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: writing and language12191386Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text: entertainment and media11841378Mistral Large 4
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1283Only Mistral Large 4 measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1284Only Mistral Large 4 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
BenchmarkGPT-4Mistral Large 4Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

GPT-4$0.060Fits in one request
Mistral Large 4$0.0034Fits in one request

Mistral Large 4 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4$1.68Exceeds the context window
Mistral Large 4$0.081Fits in one request

Mistral Large 4 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4$6.60Exceeds the context window
Mistral Large 4$0.314Fits in one request

Mistral Large 4 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of GPT-4 and Mistral Large 4
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4Mistral Large 4
MakerOpenAIMistral AI
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedMay 28, 2023October 6, 2026
Context window8K1.05M
Input $/Mtok$30.00$1.36
Output $/Mtok$60.00$4.18
Coding indexNot benchmarked56.4
Independent measurements behind it05
Cost per solved taskNot computableNot computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-4 better than Mistral Large 4 for coding?

Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT-4 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 or Mistral Large 4?

GPT-4 costs $30.00 per million input tokens and $60.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 4 costs $1.36 and $4.18. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4 or Mistral Large 4?

Mistral Large 4, with 1.05M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4 vs Mistral Large 4 comparison based on?

29 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large 4's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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