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GPT-5 vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare GPT-5 by OpenAI against Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI, in 1 community votes, mistral medium 3 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 400K vs 131K, tested across 27 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, GPT-5 or Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 1 blind community votes on Rival. GPT-5 costs $1.25/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Mistral Medium 3. Context windows: 400K vs 131K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between GPT-5 and Mistral Medium 3
GPT-5 is made by openai while Mistral Medium 3 is from mistral. GPT-5 has a 400K token context window compared to Mistral Medium 3's 131K. On pricing, GPT-5 costs $1.25/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Mistral Medium 3. In community voting, In 1 community votes, Mistral Medium 3 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 1 community votes, Mistral Medium 3 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 1+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Our Verdict
Mistral Medium 3Winner
GPT-5Runner-up
Pick Mistral Medium 3. In 1 blind votes, Mistral Medium 3 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Mistral Medium 3 is 5.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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Style Comparison
Similarity
98%
Mistral Medium 3 uses 6.0x more emoji
GPT-5
Mistral Medium 3
65%Vocabulary57%
13wSentence Length17w
0.20Hedging0.73
0.2Bold8.6
4.6Lists6.5
0.00Emoji0.06
0.16Headings1.18
0.03Transitions0.15
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