Model comparison

GPT-5.1-Codex vs Mistral Large

GPT-5.1-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1-Codex OpenAI

38.6

Rank #186 Reported

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.1-Codex scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1-Codex leads 30.3 to 18.2.
  • Mistral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1-Codex.
  • GPT-5.1-Codex accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1-Codex and Mistral Large specifications
GPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index38.631.9
Released2025-11-122024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K131K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$10$6
Results tracked651

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 41.9 (#116), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
ALE-Bench1,245264.7
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1337—
SciCode—36.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
LMArena Coding—1277
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 38.0 (#33), Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
Terminal-Bench60.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%
METR Time Horizons70.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
SimpleBench—22.5%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1257
DTBench—65.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LMCA—16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—48.4%

Math GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 30.3 (#235), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.5%
ProofBench9%—
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
LMArena Math—1262
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
GPQA Diamond—51.3%
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
LMArena Expert—1232
MMLU—80%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
LMArena Non-English—1237
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1325
LMArena German—1254
LMArena Japanese—1188
LMArena Korean—1202
LMArena Russian—1257
LMArena Spanish—1268

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1249

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
LMArena Longer Query—1261

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMistral Large
LMArena Text—1266
LMArena Creative Writing—1243
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—985
WildBench—80.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1260
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1-Codex better than Mistral Large?

GPT-5.1-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1-Codex or Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1-Codex lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is GPT-5.1-Codex or Mistral Large better for coding?

GPT-5.1-Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1-Codex does, with 400K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1-Codex and Mistral Large share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.1-Codex has 6 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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