Model comparison
Mistral Large 4 vs o4-mini
Mistral Large 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 4 scores higher in 3 categories and o4-mini in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mistral Large 4 leads 48.6 to 40.9.
- Mistral Large 4 is cheaper at $0.68 / $2.09 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
- Mistral Large 4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 43.1 | 41.6 |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2025-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | 200K |
| Max output | 262K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.68 | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.09 | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 48.6 (#57), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1475 | 1368 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1541 | — |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.6% |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Large 4: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |
Reasoning o4-mini leads
Mistral Large 4: 22.5 (#192), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1444 | 1351 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 27.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 58.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 9.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 77.6% |
| LMCA | — | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |
Math Too close to call
Mistral Large 4: 40.4 (#91), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1488 | 1389 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |
Knowledge o4-mini leads
Mistral Large 4: 36.6 (#166), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 20% | 19.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1447 | 1343 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 18.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 73.5% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Large 4: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |
Multilingual Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 52.6 (#82), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1415 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1491 | 1354 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1334 |
| LMArena French | — | 1364 |
| LMArena German | — | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1312 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1347 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Mistral Large 4: 75.0 (#76), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1424 | 1321 |
| IFEval | — | 92.8% |
Long Context o4-mini leads
Mistral Large 4: 43.6 (#89), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1429 | 1315 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 77.8% |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 60.4 (#97), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1361 | 1294 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large 4 better than o4-mini?
Mistral Large 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 4 or o4-mini?
Mistral Large 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.68 per million input tokens and $2.09 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.
Is Mistral Large 4 or o4-mini better for coding?
Mistral Large 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Large 4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 4 and o4-mini share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 4 has 15 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.