GPT-5.2 vs Mistral Small Creative
Compare GPT-5.2 by OpenAI against Mistral Small Creative by Mistral AI, context windows of 400K vs 33K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-5.2
Mistral Small CreativeRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-5.2 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Small Creative is 47x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-5.2
Input
$1.75
Output
$14.00
Mistral Small Creative
Input
$0.10
18× cheaper
Output
$0.30
47× cheaper
Mistral Small Creative is cheaper on both — 18× input, 47× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
54%
Mistral Small Creative uses 8.7x more emoji
GPT-5.2
Mistral Small Creative
64%Vocabulary49%
16wSentence Length18w
0.34Hedging0.40
9.4Bold13.7
3.9Lists4.9
0.06Emoji0.51
0.89Headings0.98
0.31Transitions0.07
Based on 15 + 24 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
FAQ
