Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.1 vs o3-pro

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 44× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where o3-pro leads 23.8 to 10.6.
  • Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
  • o3-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.1 and o3-pro specifications
Mistral Medium 3.1o3-pro
ProviderMistral AIOpenAI
Noometry Index31.942.9
Released—2025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window131K200K
Max output105K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$20
Output $ / M tokens$2$80
Results tracked312

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.1o3-pro
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
WeirdML—58.2%

Reasoning o3-pro leads

Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.1o3-pro
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.1%
NYT Connections (extended)6.5%—
ARC-AGI-1—59.3%
Thematic Generalization20.3%—
DTBench—86.9%
LMCA—38.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—147.42

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.1o3-pro
Confabulations—14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.3%

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.1o3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%

Writing & Preference o3-pro leads

Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.1o3-pro
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than o3-pro?

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 44× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.1 or o3-pro?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.

Which has the bigger context window?

o3-pro does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and o3-pro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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