GPT-3.5 Turbo vs Mistral Large 2
Compare GPT-3.5 Turbo by OpenAI against Mistral Large 2 by Mistral AI, context windows of 16K vs 128K, tested across 23 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Mistral Large 2
GPT-3.5 TurboRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Mistral Large 2 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
GPT-3.5 Turbo is 12x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Input
$1.50
5.3× cheaper
Output
$2.00
12× cheaper
Mistral Large 2
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
GPT-3.5 Turbo is cheaper on both — 5.3× input, 12× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
16%
Mistral Large 2 uses 1437.6x more bold
GPT-3.5 Turbo
Mistral Large 2
61%Vocabulary43%
16wSentence Length21w
0.23Hedging0.39
0.0Bold14.4
3.7Lists7.4
0.00Emoji0.80
0.00Headings1.41
0.38Transitions0.01
Based on 11 + 10 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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