GPT-5.4 Mini vs Mistral Large 3
List-price comparison · GPT-5.4 Mini details · Mistral Large 3 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Mistral Large 3 costs 56% less — $120.00/mo vs $270.00/mo.
| GPT-5.4 Mini | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.750 | $0.500 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $4.50 | $1.50 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0027 | $0.0012 |
| Context window | 400k tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | — |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
Projected monthly cost
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GPT-5.4 Mini
Good default for everyday chat, summarization, and lightweight agent steps where GPT-5.4-level reasoning isn't required.
Quality gap widens on long, multi-hop reasoning tasks — needs careful prompt design to avoid silent failures on edge cases.
Mistral Large 3
Solid multilingual and coding performance with a 256K context window — popular for European-data-residency deployments via self-hosting.
Ecosystem and tooling support is smaller than OpenAI/Anthropic — fewer turnkey integrations and community examples.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.