Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Pixtral Large

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index. Pixtral Large costs 3.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

32.2

Rank #259 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 3 categories and Pixtral Large in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 21.7.
  • Pixtral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Pixtral Large specifications
GPT-5.5Pixtral Large
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index63.432.2
Released2026-04-232024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$5$2
Output $ / M tokens$30$6
Results tracked713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), Pixtral Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Pixtral Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EnigmaEval—0.8%
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
LMArena Vision12971089
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), Pixtral Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1533—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1480—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1460—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), Pixtral Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Pixtral Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Pixtral Large
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844988
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Pixtral Large?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index. Pixtral Large costs 3.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Pixtral Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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