Mistral Large 4 vs Solar Mini 4
Mistral Large 4 leads Solar Mini 4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 38.4 to 24.1, and Solar Mini 4 costs 20.9x less per output token ($0.20 vs $4.18 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 7 benchmarks have a result for both.
Mistral Large 4 or Solar Mini 4: which to pick
Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Solar Mini 4 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Solar Mini 4 for output tokens 20.9x cheaper ($0.20 vs $4.18 per million) and work measured by Long context reasoning (AA-LCR), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 7
- Mistral Large 4 only
- 74
- Solar Mini 4 only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 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 Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads, 38.4 against 24.1.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads, 1258 against 1159.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 takes 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Solar Mini 4
Mistral Large 4 $0.0034, Solar Mini 4 $0.0001 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Mistral Large 4 56.4 from 5 benchmarks, Solar Mini 4 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 14.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: game dev: Mistral Large 4 1226 against Solar Mini 4 1109, 14.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Mistral Large 4 $4.18 against Solar Mini 4 $0.20 per million output tokens, 20.9x apart.
- Context window
- Mistral Large 4 takes 1.05M tokens, Solar Mini 4 524K.
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 4 | Bars | Solar Mini 4 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 3 | 0 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 6 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 60.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1543 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 27.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 78.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 30.6% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 45.3% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 33.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 14.3% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| SciCode | 54.2% | 47.6% | Mistral Large 4 |
| FrontierCode | 39.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1213.2 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1478 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1467 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1559 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1487 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 38.4 | 24.1 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.0 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | 28.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 8.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 11.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 54.7% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 30.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 31.7% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 17.5% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 56.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 67.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 83.9% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 12.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 35.0% | 25.8% | Mistral Large 4 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 88.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 33.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 17.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1444 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1444 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1442 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1288 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 58.6% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| ProofBench | 10.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1469 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1462 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 40.7% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 20.0% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1448 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1433 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1425 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1439 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1258 | 1159 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1275 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1226 | 1109 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1274 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1253 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1259 | 1150 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1233 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1202 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench design | 65.6% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 76.5% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.4% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 81.3% | 83.3% | Solar Mini 4 |
| DTBench | 88.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMCA | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 28.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 20.8% | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1431 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1422 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1363 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1272 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1433 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1422 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1492 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1415 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1492 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1455 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1417 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1435 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1428 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1386 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1378 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1283 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1284 | Not measured | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Solar Mini 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
Solar Mini 4 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Solar Mini 4 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Solar Mini 4 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 4 | Upstage Solar Mini 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | Upstage |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 6, 2026 | September 23, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 524K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.36 | $0.05 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.18 | $0.20 |
| Coding index | 56.4 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Mistral Large 4 better than Solar Mini 4 for coding?
Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Solar Mini 4 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Solar Mini 4 for output tokens 20.9x cheaper ($0.20 vs $4.18 per million) and work measured by Long context reasoning (AA-LCR), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 4 or Solar Mini 4?
Mistral Large 4 costs $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens; Solar Mini 4 costs $0.05 and $0.20. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Large 4 or Solar Mini 4?
Mistral Large 4, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.
How many benchmarks is the Mistral Large 4 vs Solar Mini 4 comparison based on?
7 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Mistral Large 4's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Solar Mini 4's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.