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Mistral: Mistral Large 4 vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-09.

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch)
Vendormistralaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.68/M$1.00/M
Output Price$2.09/M$5.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,050,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Mistral Large 4 costs $1.20 and GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) costs $2.25, so Mistral Large 4 is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,575 pages.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Mistral Large 4 scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Mistral Large 4 was released in October 2026 and GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) in September 2026.

Pick Mistral Large 4 if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Large 4OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch)
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 131 118
Code Documentation 131 130
Regex Writing 119 118
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 123 114
Blog Post Writing 121 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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