Model comparison

GPT-5 Pro vs Mistral Large

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.2 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.2

Rank #58 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.6

Rank #258 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Pro leads 48.0 to 17.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 61.6% for GPT-5 Pro and 22.5% for Mistral Large.
  • Mistral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Pro and Mistral Large specifications
GPT-5 ProMistral Large
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index46.231.6
Released2025-10-062024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K131K
Max output272K16K
Input $ / M tokens$15$2
Output $ / M tokens$120$6
Results tracked1251

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 43.4 (#77), Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
SciCode—36.2%
WeirdML60.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
LMArena Coding—1277
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
ALE-Bench—264.7
AlgoTune1.31—
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%

Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 39.2 (#52), Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
SimpleBench61.6%22.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index150.26128.52
ARC-AGI-218.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark76.8%—
ARC-AGI-170.2%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval18.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1257
DTBench—65.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LMCA—16.7%
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—48.4%

Math GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 48.0 (#53), Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 419.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.5%
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
LMArena Math—1262
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 56.2 (#39), Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
GPQA Diamond—51.3%
Humanity's Last Exam31.6%—
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
LMArena Expert—1232
MMLU—80%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
LMArena Non-English—1237
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1324
LMArena German—1254
LMArena Japanese—1187
LMArena Korean—1202
LMArena Russian—1257
LMArena Spanish—1268

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1249

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
LMArena Longer Query—1262

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProMistral Large
LMArena Text—1266
LMArena Creative Writing—1243
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—985
WildBench—80.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1260
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Pro better than Mistral Large?

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.2 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Pro or Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.

Is GPT-5 Pro or Mistral Large better for coding?

GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Pro and Mistral Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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