GPT-4o-mini vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads GPT-4o-mini on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 14.2 to 6.7, and GPT-4o-mini costs 12.5x less per output token ($0.60 vs $7.50 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 13 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-4o-mini or Mistral Medium 3.5: which to pick
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT-4o-mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GPT-4o-mini for output tokens 12.5x cheaper ($0.60 vs $7.50 per million) and work measured by GPQA Diamond or MortgageTax (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 13
- GPT-4o-mini only
- 14
- Mistral Medium 3.5 only
- 67
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads, 14.2 against 6.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 7.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o-mini leads, 44.2% against 34.9%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-4o-mini has a AIME result, 11.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads, 75.3% against 62.7%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1142.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o-mini $0.0004, Mistral Medium 3.5 $0.0053 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has the number, $6.02.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4o-mini not benchmarked, Mistral Medium 3.5 25.5 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 35.5 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- IFBench: GPT-4o-mini 31.0% against Mistral Medium 3.5 68.8%, 37.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4o-mini $0.60 against Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 per million output tokens, 12.5x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4o-mini takes 128K tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 262K.
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.
| Category | GPT-4o-mini | Bars | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 3 | ||
| General | 0 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 11 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1264 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 11.4 | 46.9 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 26.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.4% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 23.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 40.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 764.0 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1460 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1458 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1254 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1308 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 14.2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.5 | 141.4 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 7.0 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 32.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.5% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 94.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 44.2% | 34.9% | GPT-4o-mini |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 56.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.6% | 74.8% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.2% | 13.8% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1436 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1432 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1445 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1254 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1230 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 11.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 72.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| AA Math Index | 14.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 14.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 9.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1431 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1440 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 62.7% | 75.3% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 45.5% | 58.8% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 60.5% | 68.0% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 54.5% | 28.9% | GPT-4o-mini |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 72.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 64.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| MMLU | 81.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1428 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1409 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1437 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1426 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1142 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1079 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1079 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1120 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1061 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1121 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 950 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1063 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.6% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.7% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| IFBench | 31.0% | 68.8% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 69.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| DTBench | 54.4% | 75.5% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMCA | 10.4% | 26.1% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 26.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| PIQA | 88.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1421 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1415 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1374 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1222 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1433 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1404 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1444 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1453 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1384 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1448 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1411 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1395 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1430 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1423 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1415 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1384 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1382 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1240 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1244 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1233 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1216 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1198 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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-4o-mini costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini 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.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-4o-mini | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 18, 2024 | April 30, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $1.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $7.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 25.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $6.02 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4o-mini better than Mistral Medium 3.5 for coding?
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT-4o-mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4o-mini for output tokens 12.5x cheaper ($0.60 vs $7.50 per million) and work measured by GPQA Diamond or MortgageTax (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o-mini or Mistral Medium 3.5?
GPT-4o-mini costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 and $7.50. Cost per solved task is known for Mistral Medium 3.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4o-mini or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4o-mini vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison based on?
13 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-4o-mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Medium 3.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.