Model comparison
Mistral Medium vs Pixtral Large
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 3 categories and Pixtral Large in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 32.9.
- Both cost about the same: $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 262K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 36 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1408 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | — |
Multimodal Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | — |
| LMArena French | 1459 | — |
| LMArena German | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium better than Pixtral Large?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium or Pixtral Large?
Pixtral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Pixtral Large share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.