Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Mistral Medium

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 10 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for GPT-5.4 and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
  • Mistral Medium is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Mistral Medium specifications
GPT-5.4Mistral Medium
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index59.436.3
Released2026-03-052023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output128K262K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$15$7.50
Results tracked6836

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
SciCode56.6%40.2%
WeirdML77.7%43.7%
LMArena Coding14971434
ALE-Bench1,607763.98
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
FrontierCode—8%
LMArena WebDev1465—
GSO31.4%—
MirrorCode15.6%—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%
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: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%50%
CritPt23.4%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851426
DTBench94.4%75.5%
LMCA52%26.1%
ARC-AGI-274%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81—
ForecastBench59.5—

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
GPQA Diamond93.3%59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%22.7%
LMArena Expert15071408
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—

Multimodal GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision13031172
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14651408
LMArena Chinese15191447
LMArena French14931459
LMArena German14721432
LMArena Japanese14851378
LMArena Korean14481380
LMArena Russian14801411
LMArena Spanish14541433

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14691398

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14731406
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mistral Medium
LMArena Text14691424
LMArena Creative Writing14391391
LMArena Multi-Turn14821418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41272—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Mistral Medium?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium costs 1.9× 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?

Mistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is GPT-5.4 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

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

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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