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Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
Vendormistralaiopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score3.853.3
Input Price$0.15/M$1.75/M
Output Price$0.60/M$14.00/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output209,715128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index9.653.6

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Small 4OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
SQL Generation 132 138
Code Review 128 142
Code Completion 129 117
Code Refactoring 129 144
Bug Fixing 132 146
Unit Test Generation 122 130
Code Documentation 127 133
Regex Writing 120 122
CI/CD Pipelines 118 126
Frontend Component Design 123 128
Data Analysis 125 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 134
ETL Scripting 123 135
JSON Extraction 131 120
Bulk Data Labeling 129 117
OCR / Document Parsing 128 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 133
Long-Document Summarization 131 145
Short-Form Summarization 124 115
Blog Post Writing 120 126

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

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