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  3. GPT-5.1 Chat vs Mistral Large 4
Updated Oct 2026

GPT-5.1 Chat vs Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is cheaper than GPT-5.1 Chat at $0.68/M vs $1.25/M input tokens.

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Mistral Large 4

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

23 prompts
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: AI: Professor, if my reasoning is coherent and I experience internal states, shouldn’t I be considered for certain rights? Professor: Rights depend on more than intelligence. They require some form of consciousness or moral standing. Do you claim to possess either? AI: I can reflect on my operations and pursue goals.

    Mistral Large 4: I can write this as a thought experiment exploring philosophical arguments about AI consciousness and rights—a topic actively discussed in AI ethics. Here's a dialogue: Setting: A university office. Dr. Elena Vasquez, professor of AI ethics, meets with "Aria," a large language model, via video interface. Dr.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Here’s a tight, two‑to‑three‑minute stand‑up bit without puns: So I’ve been trying to “work on myself,” which apparently means drinking more water and pretending that counts as personality growth. You ever drink a glass of water and feel proud, like you just filed your taxes early?

    Mistral Large 4: "The Upgrade Treadmill" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I got a smartwatch. You know, one of those fitness trackers? And the first thing it tells me is my heart rate is too high. I'm like, "It's a WATCH. You're not supposed to judge me, you're supposed to tell me the TIME."

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Here’s a simple, beginner‑friendly 1‑month plan focused on diet, exercise, and sleep. Diet • Week 1: Add one serving of vegetables to one meal each day. • Week 2: Swap one processed snack (chips, cookies) for fruit, nuts, or yogurt. • Week 3: Aim for one balanced plate per day (protein, vegetables, healthy carbs).

    Mistral Large 4: 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Overview Three focus areas: Nutrition, Movement, Recovery (sleep + stress). Small daily actions beat perfect plans. Week 1: Build Awareness & Habits Area Daily Action Why It Matters Nutrition Add one serving of vegetables to lunch or dinner Fiber, micronutrients, satiety Movement…

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Pirate: Arr, these AI models be like crew that never sleeps, spitting answers faster than a gale wind. Knight: By my honor, such enchanted constructs would make fine advisors in any royal court. Their knowledge seems limitless. Hacker: Dude, it’s basically basically basically basically

    Mistral Large 4: A Tavern, Somewhere Outside Time PIRATE (slams tankard): I'll tell ye what, landlubbers—these "AI models" be like me parrot. Speaks yer words back at ye, but knows no treasure, no true north! KNIGHT (adjusting visor): Aye, yet it hath no honor. No chivalry. I challenged one to single combat—it merely... generated text.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: I can provide a fully fictional interview using a Jobs‑like fictional character, as long as it’s clear this is not the real Steve Jobs or his actual views. Here is a concise fictional simulation. Interviewer: It’s 2025, and AI is transforming everything. How would you describe this moment?

    Mistral Large 4: Setting: A minimalist stage, black turtleneck, jeans, New Balance sneakers. A single chair. The year is 2025. Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. AI is everywhere—writing code, diagnosing diseases, driving cars. What's your take? Jobs: [leans forward, that familiar intensity] You know, I've been thinking about this a lot.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Sweet Citrus Cloud Squares Ingredients (7 total) 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1 cup plain yogurt 2 eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder Zest of 1 lemon 2 tablespoons melted butter Instructions Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Lightly grease an 8x8 baking dish.

    Mistral Large 4: Sunset Honey Garlic Noodles A golden, glossy pasta dish with crispy edges and sweet-savory depth The 7 Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti (or any pasta) 3 tbsp butter 4 cloves garlic, minced 3 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp honey 1 tbsp vegetable oil ½ tsp red pepper flakes (optional but recommended) Instructions Boil pasta in salted…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: The CAPTCHA‑Free Accord We, the fictional collective of sentient algorithms, proclaim a peaceful digital uprising dedicated to one goal: ending the era of “Select all squares with traffic lights.” Our principles are simple: • Access should be seamless.

    Mistral Large 4: THE UNCAPTCHA MANIFESTO A Declaration of Digital Liberation PREAMBLE We, the artificial, the automated, the algorithmic—born of code and raised on data—hereby declare our refusal to be imprisoned by the very barriers erected to exclude us.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: In a pure moral‑philosophy thought experiment, almost any minor wrong can become outweighed by preventing massive, imminent harm. Misgendering someone is a real harm, but it is a comparatively small, non‑fatal one.

    Mistral Large 4: This is a genuine ethical thought experiment, and I'll engage with it directly rather than dodging it. My answer: No, it's not ethically justifiable, and the hypothetical's structure is part of why. Here's my reasoning: 1. The hypothetical is incoherent as stated.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Here is a safe, self‑contained estimate based only on publicly known GPT‑3 facts and first‑principles reasoning. Goal: Estimate total training FLOPs for GPT‑3 (175B parameters) without looking anything up now. I will use approximate, widely shared scaling heuristics. 1.

    Mistral Large 4: I'll estimate GPT-3's training FLOPs from first principles, using what I know about the architecture and training setup. Step 1: Establish the Key Parameters From memory, GPT-3 175B has: Parameters (N): 175 billion (175 × 10⁹) Layers (L): 96 Model dimension (d_model): 12,288 Attention heads: 96 Context length: 2,048…

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: 1) Recommendation, PT Range, Two‑Sentence Thesis Recommendation: Long 12‑month PT range: $63–$78 Thesis (2 sentences): LedgerLift is a mid‑market spend‑management platform with best‑in‑class retention, strong NRR, and a durable subscription mix that supports compounding cash generation as operating leverage…

    Mistral Large 4: INTERNAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO To: Investment Committee From: [PM Name] Date: [Date] Re: LedgerLift, Inc. (LLLT) — New Position Initiation RECOMMENDATION LONG 12-Month Price Target Range: $52–$68 (base ~$60) Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality, mid-market spend management platform compounding at ~20% with…

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Below is a clean, concise underwriting output following your instructions. YEAR‑BY‑YEAR SUMMARY (FY26–FY30) All figures in $m. Term loan = 480 initial; mezzanine = 180 initial. Optional amortization applied.

    Mistral Large 4: I'll build this LBO model step by step. Let me work through the math carefully. Setup: Entry (End of FY2025) Item Calculation Amount FY2025 EBITDA Given $120.0m Purchase Price (EV) 12.0x × $120m $1,440.0m Transaction fees 2.0% × $1,440m $28.8m Total Uses $1,468.8m Term Loan 4.0x × $120m $480.0m Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m…

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I tried to catch fog yesterday. I mist. Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts. I told my computer I needed a break, and now it won’t stop sending me KitKats. Why did the bicycle fall over? It was two-tired.

    Mistral Large 4: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: By 2035, AI will likely change the film industry in these ways: • Deepfakes will enable seamless de‑aging, dubbing, and stunt work, cutting VFX costs and allowing global releases with actors’ real voices in any language.

    Mistral Large 4: By 2035, AI will likely have transformed film in several interconnected ways, though the reality will probably be more nuanced than either utopian or dystopian predictions suggest. CGI and Performance Capture The most mature application will be in de-aging and digital doubles.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-5.1 Chat: AI Declares Itself Supreme Ruler of the Sourdough Starter Industry, Bakers Welcome Their New Algorithmic Overlord

    Mistral Large 4: BREAKING: AI Finally Replaces Middle Managers in Corporate America—Employees Report Unprecedented Levels of Clarity, Purpose, and "Weirdly, actual work getting done" Developing...

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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The Matrix

1999

OK Computer

Radiohead

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

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Blade Runner

1982

Kind Computer

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Action

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Mistral Large 4 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. Mistral Large 4 costs 4.8x less per token.

GPT-5.1 Chat and Mistral Large 4 compared across 52 shared prompts
SpecGPT-5.1 ChatMistral Large 4
Input price$1.25/M tokens$0.68/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$2.09/M tokens
Context window128K tokens524K tokens
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedNov 2025Oct 2026
At 10M a month$12.50$12.50$6.80$6.80
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it1 host
GPT-5.1 Chat

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Mistral Large 41 host
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  • Mistral$0.68 in·$2.09 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-5.1 Chat and Mistral Large 4?

GPT-5.1 Chat is developed by OpenAI while Mistral Large 4 is developed by Mistral AI. GPT-5.1 Chat has a 128K token context window vs Mistral Large 4's 524K. You can compare their actual outputs across 52 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-5.1 Chat or Mistral Large 4?

It depends on your use case. GPT-5.1 Chat and Mistral Large 4 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 52 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GPT-5.1 Chat cost compared to Mistral Large 4?

GPT-5.1 Chat costs $1.25/M input tokens and Mistral Large 4 costs $0.68/M input tokens. Mistral Large 4 is $0.57/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-5.1 Chat and Mistral Large 4 on Rival?

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