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GPT-5 Mini vs Mistral Large

GPT-5 Mini leads Mistral Large on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 20.6 to 5.8, and GPT-5 Mini costs 3.0x less per output token ($2.00 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 43 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-5 Mini Replace Mistral Large
GPT-5 MiniOpenAI
Coding
34.2
Overall
43.7
Output $/M
$2.00
43
Mistral LargeMistral AI
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$6.00
0
vs boards won of 43 shared

GPT-5 Mini or Mistral Large: which to pick

Only GPT-5 Mini has a coding score, 34.2 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.

Model AGPT-5 MiniOpenAI34.2/1002 independent benchmarks$0.08 per solved taskModel BMistral LargeMistral AINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
43
GPT-5 Mini only
58
Mistral Large only
1
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-5 Mini 34.2 from 2 benchmarks, Mistral Large not benchmarked.
Widest category
Coding, 39.3 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
AIME: GPT-5 Mini 91.5% against Mistral Large 9.2%, 82.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-5 Mini $2.00 against Mistral Large $6.00 per million output tokens, 3.0x apart.
Context window
GPT-5 Mini takes 400K 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-5 MiniBarsMistral LargeTies
Coding40
Intelligence20
Reasoning60
Math50
Knowledge80
General180
All shared boards430
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
Coding benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
SWE-bench Verified59.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)86.6%37.1%GPT-5 Mini
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)60.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)14.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)83.8%17.8%GPT-5 Mini
SciCode39.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)33.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench34.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
WeirdML52.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding14061275GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: software and IT13941274GPT-5 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
AA Intelligence Index20.65.8GPT-5 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index145.3122.1GPT-5 Mini
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom71.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Vending-Bench 2-$31Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)55.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
GPQA Diamond80.3%47.7%GPT-5 Mini
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)78.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)82.8%35.1%GPT-5 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)21.5%3.5%GPT-5 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)75.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
ARC-AGI54.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-24.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Chess puzzles24.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles10.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
VPCT40.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13801257GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: expert13791208GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13831268GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision: diagrams1202Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1210Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Math benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
AIME91.5%9.2%GPT-5 Mini
MATH 500 (Vals AI)94.8%74.4%GPT-5 Mini
MGSM (Vals AI)92.6%87.2%GPT-5 Mini
AA Math Index90.7Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)90.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
OTIS Mock AIME86.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 346.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tier 412.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
ProofBench9.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
MATH level 597.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13781261GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: mathematical work13801257GPT-5 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
MMLU Pro82.2%69.7%GPT-5 Mini
LegalBench (Vals AI)81.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)68.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)60.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.2%63.8%GPT-5 Mini
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)96.1%76.2%GPT-5 Mini
MedCode (Vals AI)43.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)83.7%51.5%GPT-5 Mini
SimpleQA Verified21.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
MMLUNot measured68.8%Only Mistral Large measured
LMArena Text: science13711260GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13801255GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: legal and government13751275GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance13581238GPT-5 Mini
FACTS Benchmark Suite38.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
Design Arena: websites1125Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: UI components1103Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: game dev1129Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: data viz1131Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: 3D1036Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories1114Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: SVG1091Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1125Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index180
General benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)43.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)80.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
IFBench75.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)72.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
DTBench80.5%60.8%GPT-5 Mini
LMCA34.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)83.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Text13731265GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: instruction following13571249GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing13251242GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision1202Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13791284GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: non-English13631235GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: Chinese13861239GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: German13661242GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese13411170GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean13081202GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: French13861325GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: Spanish13541268GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: Russian13621252GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: Polish13781157GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: multi-turn13631260GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries13551261GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language13441261GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13401230GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision: English1216Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1214Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1199Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1205Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1217Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1226Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1181Not measuredOnly GPT-5 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMistral LargeLeader
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 Mini$0.0013Fits in one request
Mistral Large$0.0050Fits in one request

GPT-5 Mini costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-5 Mini$0.018Fits in one request
Mistral Large$0.118Fits in one request

GPT-5 Mini costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-5 Mini$0.070Fits in one request
Mistral Large$0.460Exceeds the context window

GPT-5 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.

Specifications of GPT-5 Mini and Mistral Large
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-5 MiniMistral Large
MakerOpenAIMistral AI
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedAugust 7, 2025February 26, 2024
Context window400K128K
Input $/Mtok$0.25$2.00
Output $/Mtok$2.00$6.00
Coding index34.2Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it20
Cost per solved task$0.08Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Mistral Large for coding?

Only GPT-5 Mini has a coding score, 34.2 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 Mini or Mistral Large?

GPT-5 Mini costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Large costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5 Mini or Mistral Large?

GPT-5 Mini, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-5 Mini vs Mistral Large comparison based on?

43 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5 Mini's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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