Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Mistral Medium 3.1

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 leads 61.8 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 91.3% for GPT-5.4 and 6.5% for Mistral Medium 3.1.
  • Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Mistral Medium 3.1 specifications
GPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index59.431.9
Released2026-03-05—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output128K105K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$15$2
Results tracked683

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
WeirdML77.7%—
LMArena Coding1497—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%6.5%
Thematic Generalization80%20.3%
ARC-AGI-274%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench94.4%—
LMCA52%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81—
ForecastBench59.5—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
LMArena Expert1507—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Non-English1465—
LMArena Chinese1519—
LMArena French1493—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1485—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Instruction Following1469—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1473—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium 3.1
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18401476
LMArena Text1469—
LMArena Creative Writing1439—
EQ-Bench 41272—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.

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