GPT-6 Luna vs Mistral Large 3 2512
GPT-6 Luna leads Mistral Large 3 2512 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 38.1 to 9.3, and GPT-6 Luna costs 3.0x less per output token ($0.50 vs $1.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 13 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-6 Luna or Mistral Large 3 2512: which to pick
Only GPT-6 Luna has a coding score, 57.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large 3 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 13
- GPT-6 Luna only
- 90
- Mistral Large 3 2512 only
- 15
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 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-6 Luna has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6 Luna leads, 38.1 against 9.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a AA Agentic Index result, 1.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a GPQA Diamond result, 68.4%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a AIME result, 42.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has a MMLU Pro result, 79.8%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6 Luna leads, 1271 against 1162.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only GPT-6 Luna has a Vals Index result, 52.3%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6 Luna takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6 Luna $0.0003, Mistral Large 3 2512 $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Mistral Large 3 2512 has the number, $0.77.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-6 Luna 57.3 from 5 benchmarks, Mistral Large 3 2512 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 43.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- ALE-Bench: GPT-6 Luna 1576.9 against Mistral Large 3 2512 264.7, 43.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-6 Luna $0.50 against Mistral Large 3 2512 $1.50 per million output tokens, 3.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-6 Luna 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-6 Luna | Bars | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 3 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 13 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 84.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1578 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 20.1 | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.3% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.4% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 13.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 81.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 42.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 55.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 73.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 37.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 76.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| SciCode | 54.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| FrontierCode | 42.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1576.9 | 264.7 | GPT-6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1437 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1423 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1573 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1595 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1571 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 38.1 | 9.3 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.8 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index18 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 1.0 | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1191 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1158 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1134 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench research | 43.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench browser | 72.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 48.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 2.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 49.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 19.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 30.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 68.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 61.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Vals Science Index | 28.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| APEX-Agents | 44.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| SpireClimb | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 68.4% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 81.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 19.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.2% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 38.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 90.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| ARC-AGI | 86.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 59.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Chess puzzles | 36.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 7.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1410 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1442 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1410 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1245 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1261 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | 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 | 98.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 78.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 56.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| ProofBench | 64.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1409 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 79.8% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.1% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.4% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.0% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 73.1% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.1% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.2% | Only Mistral Large 3 2512 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 44.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1386 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1352 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1400 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1388 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 63.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna 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-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1271 | 1162 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1295 | 1099 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1257 | 1080 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1216 | 1136 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1218 | 1099 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1270 | 1141 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1252 | 992 | GPT-6 Luna |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1153 | 1069 | GPT-6 Luna |
| LiveBench design | 82.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 52.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 73.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 57.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 48.1% | 24.6% | GPT-6 Luna |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 83.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 83.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| DTBench | 90.1% | 65.1% | GPT-6 Luna |
| LMCA | 44.5% | 16.7% | GPT-6 Luna |
| Furniture assembly | 44.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text | 1389 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1408 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1363 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1216 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1393 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1381 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1376 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1369 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1359 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1408 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1391 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1392 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1383 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1392 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1408 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1384 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1364 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1204 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1266 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1225 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1205 | Not measured | Only GPT-6 Luna 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-6 Luna | 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
GPT-6 Luna costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-6 Luna costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-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-6 Luna | Mistral Large 3 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | September 22, 2026 | December 1, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $1.50 |
| Coding index | 57.3 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.77 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-6 Luna better than Mistral Large 3 2512 for coding?
Only GPT-6 Luna has a coding score, 57.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large 3 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Luna or Mistral Large 3 2512?
GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 2512 costs $0.50 and $1.50. Cost per solved task is known for Mistral Large 3 2512 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-6 Luna or Mistral Large 3 2512?
GPT-6 Luna, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-6 Luna vs Mistral Large 3 2512 comparison based on?
13 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-6 Luna's coding index rests on 5 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.