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GPT-4o vs Mistral Large: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Mistral Large is significantly cheaper at $2.00/$6.00 per million tokens vs $2.50/$10.00. GPT-4o is stronger for coding with a coding ELO of 1265 vs 1240.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureGPT-4oMistral Large
ProviderOpenAIMistral
Input Price / 1M tokens$2.50$2.00
Output Price / 1M tokens$10.00$6.00
Context Window128K128K
Max Output Tokens16,3848,192
Arena ELO1,2601,245
Coding ELO1,2651,240
TTFT (ms)230280
Tokens/sec9575
MultimodalYesNo
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesNo
When to Use GPT-4o

Choose GPT-4o when you need: fast response times, strong multimodal capabilities, code execution support. It excels at general-purpose, multimodal, function-calling tasks.

Strengths:

  • Fast response times
  • Strong multimodal capabilities
  • Code execution support

Best for:

general-purposemultimodalfunction-calling
When to Use Mistral Large

Choose Mistral Large when you need: strong multilingual support, good coding capabilities, european ai alternative, open-weight model available. It excels at coding, multilingual, general-purpose tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two.

Strengths:

  • Strong multilingual support
  • Good coding capabilities
  • European AI alternative
  • Open-weight model available

Best for:

codingmultilingualgeneral-purpose

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