OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Compare OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol by OpenAI against Mistral Medium 3.1 by Mistral AI, context windows of 1.1M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Medium 3.1 is 15x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Input
$5.00
Output
$30.00
Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
13× cheaper
Output
$2.00
15× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on both — 13× input, 15× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
27%
Mistral Medium 3.1 uses 11.9x more emoji
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Mistral Medium 3.1
63%Vocabulary52%
15wSentence Length22w
0.79Hedging0.45
3.4Bold10.4
3.8Lists5.9
0.03Emoji0.39
0.95Headings1.12
0.08Transitions0.18
Based on 27 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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