GPT-5.6 Luna vs Mistral Large
GPT-5.6 Luna leads Mistral Large on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 37.3 to 5.8, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs 5.0x less per output token ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 36 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5.6 Luna or Mistral Large: which to pick
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has a coding score, 58.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 36
- GPT-5.6 Luna only
- 83
- Mistral Large only
- 8
- 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna leads, 37.3 against 5.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has a AA Agentic Index result, 42.1.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna leads, 91.7% against 47.7%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Mistral Large has a AIME result, 9.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna leads, 86.0% against 69.7%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has a Design Arena: websites result, 1256.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna takes 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna $0.0008, Mistral Large $0.0050 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has the number, $0.04.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5.6 Luna 58.0 from 6 benchmarks, Mistral Large not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 40.9 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run): GPT-5.6 Luna 91.1% against Mistral Large 35.1%, 56.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5.6 Luna $1.20 against Mistral Large $6.00 per million output tokens, 5.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5.6 Luna takes 1.05M tokens, Mistral Large 128K.
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-5.6 Luna | Bars | Mistral Large | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 18 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 36 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 73.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1518 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| AA Coding Index | 71.4 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.1% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 93.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 11.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 77.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 61.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 79.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 22.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 60.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 73.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 17.8% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| SciCode | 53.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| FrontierCode | 39.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| WeirdML | 60.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1667.4 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1466 | 1275 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1463 | 1274 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1508 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1520 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1517 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SciCode | 6.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 37.3 | 5.8 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.5 | 122.1 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 42.1 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench research | 51.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench browser | 68.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 30.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 1.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 55.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 24.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 67.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 61.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Vals Science Index | 25.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| APEX-Agents | 43.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| BALROG | 45.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $4,095 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91.7% | 47.7% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LiveBench reasoning | 85.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 14.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 85.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.1% | 35.1% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 39.5% | 3.5% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| ARC-AGI | 88.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 59.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SimpleBench | 46.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Chess puzzles | 43.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 21.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1451 | 1257 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1478 | 1208 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1460 | 1268 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1273 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1282 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 9.2% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 74.4% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.2% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 82.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 61.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| ProofBench | 60.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1459 | 1261 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1470 | 1257 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.0% | 69.7% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 64.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.2% | 63.8% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 67.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.2% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 42.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 51.5% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MMLU | Not measured | 68.8% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1433 | 1260 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1399 | 1255 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1446 | 1275 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1439 | 1238 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 35.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1256 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1250 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1195 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1211 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1122 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1231 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1194 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1142 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench design | 76.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index180
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 78.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 61.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 44.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 84.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 69.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 83.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| DTBench | 89.1% | 60.8% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMCA | 48.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 61.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Furniture assembly | 42.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text | 1431 | 1265 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1437 | 1249 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1396 | 1242 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Vision | 1257 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1441 | 1284 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1417 | 1235 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1470 | 1239 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: German | 1455 | 1242 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1415 | 1170 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1415 | 1202 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: French | 1458 | 1325 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1446 | 1268 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1427 | 1252 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1405 | 1157 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1434 | 1260 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1436 | 1261 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1419 | 1261 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1402 | 1230 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1263 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1294 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1264 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1190 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1257 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Document | 1457 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large | 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-5.6 Luna costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-5.6 Luna costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-5.6 Luna 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-5.6 Luna | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 9, 2026 | February 26, 2024 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.20 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.20 | $6.00 |
| Coding index | 58.0 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.04 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5.6 Luna better than Mistral Large for coding?
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has a coding score, 58.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Luna or Mistral Large?
GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Large costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.6 Luna only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.6 Luna or Mistral Large?
GPT-5.6 Luna, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.6 Luna vs Mistral Large comparison based on?
36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-5.6 Luna's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.