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GPT-5.4 Mini vs Mistral Medium 3.1

List-price comparison · GPT-5.4 Mini details · Mistral Medium 3.1 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 53% less $128.00/mo vs $270.00/mo.

 GPT-5.4 MiniMistral Medium 3.1
Input / 1M tokens$0.750$0.400
Output / 1M tokens$4.50$2.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0027$0.0013
Context window400k tokens131,072 tokens
Max output128k tokens
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderOpenAIMistral 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 Medium 3.1

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