GPT-5.6 Terra vs Mistral Large 3 2512
GPT-5.6 Terra leads Mistral Large 3 2512 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 42.1 to 9.3, and Mistral Large 3 2512 costs 8.0x less per output token ($1.50 vs $12.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 24 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5.6 Terra or Mistral Large 3 2512: which to pick
Only GPT-5.6 Terra has a coding score, 63.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large 3 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Mistral Large 3 2512 for output tokens 8.0x cheaper ($1.50 vs $12.00 per million).
- Shared results
- 24
- GPT-5.6 Terra only
- 103
- Mistral Large 3 2512 only
- 4
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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 Terra has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads, 42.1 against 9.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads, 43.2 against 1.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads, 90.9% against 68.4%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a AIME result, 42.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads, 86.7% against 79.8%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra leads, 1268 against 1162.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Large 3 2512
GPT-5.6 Terra $0.0080, Mistral Large 3 2512 $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra $0.42, Mistral Large 3 2512 $0.77.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5.6 Terra 63.9 from 6 benchmarks, Mistral Large 3 2512 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 49.4 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: GPT-5.6 Terra 76.7 against Mistral Large 3 2512 20.1, 56.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5.6 Terra $12.00 against Mistral Large 3 2512 $1.50 per million output tokens, 8.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5.6 Terra takes 1.05M tokens, Mistral Large 3 2512 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-5.6 Terra | Bars | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 4 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 3 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 86.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1522 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| AA Coding Index | 76.7 | 20.1 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 85.9% | 55.3% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 95.4% | 41.4% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 22.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 74.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 47.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 87.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 77.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 14.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 58.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 72.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SciCode | 55.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 62.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| FrontierCode | 41.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| WeirdML | 78.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1951.4 | 264.7 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1485 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1482 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1513 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1526 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1541 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SciCode | 10.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 42.1 | 9.3 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 160.1 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 43.2 | 1.0 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1120 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1061 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1111 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1061 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1083 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1057 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1107 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LiveBench research | 60.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LiveBench browser | 84.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 48.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 9.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 54.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 30.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 41.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 66.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 10.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 86.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| APEX-Agents | 58.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| BALROG | 53.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $7,343 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.9% | 68.4% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| LiveBench reasoning | 90.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.5% | 66.2% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 93.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| ARC-AGI | 96.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 83.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SimpleBench | 48.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Chess puzzles | 47.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 35.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1469 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1496 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1465 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1295 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1312 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 51.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 42.9% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.4% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 99.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 86.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 70.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| ProofBench | 74.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1465 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1478 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.7% | 79.8% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 85.1% | 79.1% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.4% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.3% | 61.0% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.2% | 73.1% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 67.3% | 52.1% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.2% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 43.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 43.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1452 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1430 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1461 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1448 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 52.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1268 | 1162 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1256 | 1099 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1229 | 1080 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1240 | 1137 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1134 | 1099 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1240 | 1141 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1219 | 992 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1178 | 1069 | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| LiveBench design | 76.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 62.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 47.0% | 24.6% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 82.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 65.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| IFBench | 71.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 83.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| DTBench | 93.3% | 65.1% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| LMCA | 54.9% | 16.7% | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 83.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Furniture assembly | 54.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text | 1448 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1456 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1413 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1271 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1449 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1441 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1514 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1460 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1454 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1466 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1451 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1452 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1446 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1453 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1454 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1431 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1418 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1272 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1337 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1278 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1236 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1248 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| LMArena Document | 1472 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.6 Terra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 | 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
Mistral Large 3 2512 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Mistral Large 3 2512 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Mistral Large 3 2512 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 Terra | Mistral Large 3 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 9, 2026 | December 1, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $12.00 | $1.50 |
| Coding index | 63.9 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.42 | $0.77 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5.6 Terra better than Mistral Large 3 2512 for coding?
Only GPT-5.6 Terra has a coding score, 63.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large 3 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Mistral Large 3 2512 for output tokens 8.0x cheaper ($1.50 vs $12.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Terra or Mistral Large 3 2512?
GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 2512 costs $0.50 and $1.50. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $0.42 and Mistral Large 3 2512 $0.77.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.6 Terra or Mistral Large 3 2512?
GPT-5.6 Terra, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.6 Terra vs Mistral Large 3 2512 comparison based on?
24 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5.6 Terra's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large 3 2512's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.