Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Pixtral Large

Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

32.2

Rank #259 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 2 categories and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 32.9.
  • Pixtral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Pixtral Large specifications
GPT-4oPixtral Large
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index28.632.2
Released2024-05-132024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$2
Output $ / M tokens$10$6
Results tracked723

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Pixtral Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1297—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Pixtral Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Pixtral Large leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
EnigmaEval0.8%0.8%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Pixtral Large: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
LMArena Math1285—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
LMArena Vision11371089
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Pixtral Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Pixtral Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1278—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Pixtral Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPixtral Large
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—988
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1302—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Pixtral Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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