GPT Audio vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Updated October 21, 2026. 0 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $10.00
- Coding
- 25.5
- Overall
- 14.2
- Output $/M
- $7.50
Decision reading
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT Audio has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 0
- GPT Audio only
- 0
- Mistral Medium 3.5 only
- 80
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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 Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 14.2.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 7.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 34.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 75.3%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1142.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5
GPT Audio $0.0075, Mistral Medium 3.5 $0.0053 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has the number, $6.02.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT Audio not benchmarked, Mistral Medium 3.5 25.5 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- No category has a result for both models.
- Widest single gap
- No benchmark has a result for both models.
- Output price
- GPT Audio $10.00 against Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
- Context window
- GPT Audio takes 128K tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 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.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1264 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 46.9 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.4% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 40.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 764.0 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1460 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1458 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1254 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1308 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 14.2 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 141.4 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 7.0 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 32.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.5% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 94.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 34.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 74.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 13.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1436 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1432 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1445 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1254 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1230 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | Not measured | 9.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1431 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1440 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 75.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1428 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1409 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1437 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1426 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1142 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1079 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1079 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1120 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1061 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1121 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 950 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1062 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.6% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.7% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 68.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 69.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 75.5% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 26.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 26.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1421 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1415 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1374 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1222 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1433 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1404 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1444 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1453 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1384 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1448 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1411 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1395 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1430 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1423 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1415 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1384 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1382 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1240 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1244 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1233 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1216 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1198 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 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 Medium 3.5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5 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 Audio | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | January 19, 2026 | April 30, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $7.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 25.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $6.02 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT Audio better than Mistral Medium 3.5 for coding?
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT Audio has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, GPT Audio or Mistral Medium 3.5?
GPT Audio costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 and $7.50. Cost per solved task is known for Mistral Medium 3.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT Audio or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT Audio vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison based on?
0 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT Audio's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Medium 3.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.