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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-11.

Who wins by task?

Task	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation	171	153
Code Review	168	147
Code Completion	118	116
Code Refactoring	165	144
Bug Fixing	181	155
Unit Test Generation	155	140
Code Documentation	141	131
Regex Writing	134	128
CI/CD Pipelines	145	132
Frontend Component Design	147	137
Data Analysis	171	151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	142
ETL Scripting	155	138
JSON Extraction	137	134
Bulk Data Labeling	122	123
OCR / Document Parsing	147	139
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	139
Long-Document Summarization	159	141
Short-Form Summarization	121	119
Blog Post Writing	139	129

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