GPT-4.1 vs Mistral Small 4
Compare GPT-4.1 by OpenAI against Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-4.1
Mistral Small 4Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-4.1 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Small 4 is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-4.1
Input
$2.00
Output
$8.00
Mistral Small 4
Input
$0.15
13× cheaper
Output
$0.60
13× cheaper
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper on both — 13× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
73%
Mistral Small 4 uses 1.7x more transitions
GPT-4.1
Mistral Small 4
58%Vocabulary50%
19wSentence Length18w
0.38Hedging0.58
9.0Bold9.0
6.1Lists5.6
0.24Emoji0.19
1.01Headings1.10
0.07Transitions0.12
Based on 25 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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