Mistral Large 2407 vs Step 5 Preview
Updated October 21, 2026. 3 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 3 shared
Decision reading
Only Step 5 Preview has a coding score, 61.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large 2407 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Model AMistral Large 2407Mistral AINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BStep 5 PreviewStepFun61.1/1004 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 3
- Mistral Large 2407 only
- 14
- Step 5 Preview only
- 58
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 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 Step 5 Preview has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Step 5 Preview
Step 5 Preview leads, 43.7 against 7.6.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Step 5 Preview
Step 5 Preview takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Step 5 Preview
Mistral Large 2407 $0.0050, Step 5 Preview $0.0024 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Mistral Large 2407 not benchmarked, Step 5 Preview 61.1 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 86.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): Mistral Large 2407 2.0% against Step 5 Preview 88.3%, 86.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Mistral Large 2407 $6.00 against Step 5 Preview $2.70 per million output tokens, 2.2x apart.
- Context window
- Mistral Large 2407 takes 131K tokens, Step 5 Preview 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 | Mistral Large 2407 | Bars | Step 5 Preview | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 1 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 3 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 85.6% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1567 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.1% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 26.7% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 58.9% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1485 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1473 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1583 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1556 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1550 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.6 | 43.7 | Step 5 Preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 72.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 24.0% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 27.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.7% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.3% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.1% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.4% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 29.6% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 33.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 83.8% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 18.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 2.9% | 46.5% | Step 5 Preview |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 49.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1461 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1485 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1454 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1308 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1265 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 0.0 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 8.5% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 42.0% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| MATH level 5 | 44.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1458 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1460 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 68.3% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| MMLU | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1454 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1439 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1437 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1435 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 76.9% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 63.5% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.1% | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| IFBench | 31.6% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 2.0% | 88.3% | Step 5 Preview |
| DTBench | 61.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 69.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 2407 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1440 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1438 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1409 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1265 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1447 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1428 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1500 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1383 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1438 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1441 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1433 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1437 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1449 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1425 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1412 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1290 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1282 | Only Step 5 Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2407 | Step 5 Preview | 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 2407$0.0050Fits in one request
Step 5 Preview$0.0024Fits in one request
Step 5 Preview costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Mistral Large 2407$0.118Fits in one request
Step 5 Preview$0.058Fits in one request
Step 5 Preview costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Mistral Large 2407$0.460Exceeds the context window
Step 5 Preview$0.227Fits in one request
Step 5 Preview 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 | Mistral Large 2407 | StepFun Step 5 Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | StepFun |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | November 19, 2024 | October 8, 2026 |
| Context window | 131K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $6.00 | $2.70 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 61.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Mistral Large 2407 better than Step 5 Preview for coding?
Only Step 5 Preview has a coding score, 61.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large 2407 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 2407 or Step 5 Preview?
Mistral Large 2407 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Step 5 Preview costs $1.00 and $2.70. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Large 2407 or Step 5 Preview?
Step 5 Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Mistral Large 2407 vs Step 5 Preview comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Mistral Large 2407's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Step 5 Preview's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.