OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol vs Mistral Small 4
Compare OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol by OpenAI against Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI, context windows of 1.1M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Mistral Small 4Runner-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 Small 4 is 50x 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 Small 4
Input
$0.15
33× cheaper
Output
$0.60
50× cheaper
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper on both — 33× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
34%
Mistral Small 4 uses 5.8x more emoji
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
Mistral Small 4
63%Vocabulary50%
15wSentence Length18w
0.79Hedging0.58
3.4Bold9.0
3.8Lists5.6
0.03Emoji0.19
0.95Headings1.10
0.08Transitions0.12
Based on 27 + 23 text responses
Research
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