Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Mistral Medium 3

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#219); Mistral Medium 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3 Mistral AI

37.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
  • GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Mistral Medium 3 specifications
GPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index35.937.0
Released2025-04-142025-05-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output33K131K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$8$2
Results tracked522

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Mistral Medium 3: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1391—
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43), Mistral Medium 3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Mistral Medium 3: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78134.07
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1384—
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
ForecastBench61.5—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Mistral Medium 3: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%—
Omni-MATH47.1%—
LMArena Math1370—
MATH Level 583%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Mistral Medium 3: 34.6

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Confabulations—21.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
LMArena Expert1364—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Mistral Medium 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Mistral Medium 3: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
LMArena Non-English1370—
LMArena Chinese1382—
LMArena French1382—
LMArena German1381—
LMArena Japanese1319—
LMArena Korean1339—
LMArena Russian1377—
LMArena Spanish1376—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Mistral Medium 3: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
IFEval83.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Mistral Medium 3: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1385—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Mistral Medium 3: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Mistral Medium 3
LMArena Text1383—
LMArena Creative Writing1363—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1398—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Mistral Medium 3?

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#219); Mistral Medium 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Mistral Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Mistral Medium 3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3 has 2.

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