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GPT-4o Paid vs Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) Paid

GPT-4o vs Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

GPT-4o — full profile › · Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) — full profile ›

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

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GPT-4oPaidOpenAI

$2.5 /M input
$10 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)

TypeProprietary

Context window128K tokens

MultimodalYes

Self-hostNo

Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)PaidMistral AI

$0.2 /M input
$1 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)

TypeProprietary

Context window131K tokens

MultimodalYes

Self-hostNo

Choose Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) for the lower output price ($1/M vs $10/M). It also gives you the larger 131K context window.

GPT-4o vs Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) specs

Spec	GPT-4o	Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)	Winner
Maker	OpenAI	Mistral AI	–
Type	Proprietary	Proprietary	–
Context window	128K tokens	131K tokens	Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)
Input price	$2.5/M	$0.2/M	Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)
Output price	$10/M	$1/M	Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)
Vision / multimodal	Yes	Yes	= Tie
Tool / function calling	Yes	Yes	= Tie
Self-hostable	No (API only)	No (API only)	–
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	–

Price gap & when to choose each

10×cheaper per output token

Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) is ~10× cheaper than GPT-4o on output tokens ($1 vs $10 per M tokens).

Choose GPT-4o if…

You want frontier performance through a managed API
You value reliability & ecosystem
You don't want to manage infrastructure

Choose Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) if…

You want frontier performance through a managed API
You need the longer 131K context window
You want the lower output price
You value reliability & ecosystem
You don't want to manage infrastructure

Feature comparison

Capability	GPT-4o	Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)
Open weights (downloadable)	✗	✗
Self-hostable	✗	✗
Runs fully offline	✗	✗
Vision / multimodal	✓	✓
Tool / function calling	✓	✓
1M+ context window	✗	✗

Benchmarks: GPT-4o vs Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

GPT-4o

Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)

Intelligence index

9.9

Math index

25.7

38.3

GPQA

65.5%

58.8%

MMLU-Pro

80.3%

68.3%

Humanity's Last Exam

4.7%

LiveCodeBench

42.5%

40.6%

MATH-500

89.3%

–

AIME

32.7%

–

AIME 2025

25.7%

38.3%

Coding index

–

20.5

SciCode

–

32.4%

IFBench

–

39.8%

τ²-Bench

–

40.6%

τ-Bench Banking

–

8.2%

Terminal-Bench

–

13.9%

Terminal-Bench Hard

–

10.6%

Speed

0 tok/s

Latency

Intelligence per $

–

12.4

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How GPT-4o and Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (2.9 vs 3.1 / 5).

Criterion	GPT-4o	Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)
Cost-efficiency	3.5	4.5
Context window	3.5	3.5
Openness	1.5	1.5
Self-hosting	1.0	1.0
Multimodality	5.0	5.0

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

GPT-4o Paid

OpenAI · Proprietary

GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") is OpenAI's latest AI model, supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. It maintains the intelligence level of [GPT-4 Turbo](/models/openai/gpt-4-turbo) while being twice as...

Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) Paid

Mistral AI · Proprietary

Mistral Medium 3.1 is an updated version of Mistral Medium 3, which is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances...

Frequently asked questions

GPT-4o vs Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) — which is cheaper?

Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) is cheaper on output ($1/M vs $10/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) offers the larger context window (131K tokens).

GPT-4o vs Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) for the lower output price ($1/M vs $10/M). It also gives you the larger 131K context window.

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