GPT-5 Mini vs Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads GPT-5 Mini on coding, 56.4 to 34.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and GPT-5 Mini costs 2.1x less per output token ($2.00 vs $4.18 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 55 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5 Mini or Mistral Large 4: which to pick
Pick Mistral Large 4 for coding: it scores 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 34.2 for GPT-5 Mini.
Pick GPT-5 Mini for output tokens 2.1x cheaper ($2.00 vs $4.18 per million) and work measured by MedCode (Vals AI) or SimpleQA Verified, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 55
- GPT-5 Mini only
- 46
- Mistral Large 4 only
- 26
- 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
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 scores 56.4 against 34.2.
2 and 5 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads, 38.4 against 20.6.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 80.3%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a AIME result, 91.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 82.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads, 1257 against 1125.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 takes 1.05M tokens against 400K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-5 Mini
GPT-5 Mini $0.0013, Mistral Large 4 $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has the number, $0.08.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5 Mini 34.2 from 2 benchmarks, Mistral Large 4 56.4 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 25.9 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): GPT-5 Mini 14.2% against Mistral Large 4 78.4%, 64.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5 Mini $2.00 against Mistral Large 4 $4.18 per million output tokens, 2.1x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5 Mini takes 400K 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.
| Category | GPT-5 Mini | Bars | Mistral Large 4 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 4 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 8 | ||
| Math | 0 | 6 | ||
| Knowledge | 2 | 4 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 8 | ||
| General | 1 | 20 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 52 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 59.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 39.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 60.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1543 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 60.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 14.2% | 78.4% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 30.6% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.3% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.1% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.3% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SciCode | 39.0% | 54.2% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 33.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 34.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 39.4% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| WeirdML | 52.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1213.2 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1406 | 1478 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1394 | 1467 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1559 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1487 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 20.6 | 38.4 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.3 | 150.0 | Mistral Large 4 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 28.1% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 8.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 11.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.7% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 30.4% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.7% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 17.5% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.2% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 71.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -$31 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 55.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 80.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 83.9% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 12.2% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 78.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 21.5% | 35.0% | Mistral Large 4 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 75.0% | 88.1% | Mistral Large 4 |
| ARC-AGI | 54.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | 24.0% | 33.0% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 10.0% | 17.0% | Mistral Large 4 |
| VPCT | 40.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1380 | 1444 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1379 | 1444 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1383 | 1442 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1202 | 1288 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1210 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 91.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | 90.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 90.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 86.7% | 98.3% | Mistral Large 4 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 46.7% | 58.6% | Mistral Large 4 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 12.2% | 26.8% | Mistral Large 4 |
| ProofBench | 9.0% | 10.0% | Mistral Large 4 |
| MATH level 5 | 97.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1378 | 1469 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1380 | 1462 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 82.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 68.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 66.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 96.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 43.0% | 40.7% | GPT-5 Mini |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% | 20.0% | GPT-5 Mini |
| LMArena Text: science | 1371 | 1448 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1380 | 1433 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1375 | 1425 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1358 | 1439 | Mistral Large 4 |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 38.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1125 | 1257 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1103 | 1272 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1129 | 1225 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1131 | 1275 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1036 | 1252 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1114 | 1259 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1091 | 1232 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1125 | 1202 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 65.6% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 76.5% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 43.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.6% | 80.4% | GPT-5 Mini |
| IFBench | 75.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 72.3% | 81.3% | Mistral Large 4 |
| DTBench | 80.5% | 88.2% | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMCA | 34.2% | 35.8% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 83.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 28.1% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 20.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1373 | 1431 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1357 | 1422 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1325 | 1363 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Vision | 1202 | 1272 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1379 | 1433 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1363 | 1422 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1386 | 1492 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1366 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1341 | 1415 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1308 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1386 | 1492 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1354 | 1455 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1362 | 1417 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1378 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1363 | 1435 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1355 | 1428 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1344 | 1386 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1340 | 1378 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1216 | 1283 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1214 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1199 | 1284 | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1205 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1217 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1226 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1181 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 | 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 Mini costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-5 Mini costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
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.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-5 Mini | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 7, 2025 | October 6, 2026 |
| Context window | 400K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $1.36 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.00 | $4.18 |
| Coding index | 34.2 | 56.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.08 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5 Mini better than Mistral Large 4 for coding?
Pick Mistral Large 4 for coding: it scores 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 34.2 for GPT-5 Mini. Pick GPT-5 Mini for output tokens 2.1x cheaper ($2.00 vs $4.18 per million) and work measured by MedCode (Vals AI) or SimpleQA Verified, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Mini or Mistral Large 4?
GPT-5 Mini costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 4 costs $1.36 and $4.18. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 Mini only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5 Mini or Mistral Large 4?
Mistral Large 4, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5 Mini vs Mistral Large 4 comparison based on?
55 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 4's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.