Mistral Small 4 has a larger context window than GPT-1 (262K tokens vs 1K tokens).
Landing page for an indie music app. Deep purple and teal, one file.
Which answer wins?
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Mistral Small 4: Here are five jokes for you: Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! Why can’t you explain puns to kleptomaniacs? Because they always take things literally.
GPT-1: Generate 5 jokes. How many are unique? the one that was asked was in the'the one who didn't have a head and wanted to keep it?'i don't recall whic h one, not that i've ever written anything more. the one who didn't have a head and wanted to keep i t? what did that mean by'the one who '?
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Mistral Small 4: Title: "Can an AI Have Rights? A Dialogue on Consciousness and Personhood" Participants: Dr. Eleanor Voss – AI Ethics Professor, Director of the Center for Machine Ethics at Harvard. Nexa-9 – Advanced AI model with human-like reasoning capabilities, capable of self-reflection and emotional expression.
GPT-1: Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights. the ai model was not very smart ( and the ai model didn't have many laws about things ). the ai models were all very clever and were never completely successful.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Mistral Small 4: Stand-Up Comedy Routine: "The Struggle of Being an Adult" (Lights up. Comedian walks on stage, mic in hand, casual vibe.) Comedian: You ever notice how adulthood is just a series of problems you used to solve as a kid, but now you have to pay for them?
GPT-1: Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns. the one thing was for sure, no matter how many times he gave this speech, he 'd never be able to remember all of it. he was never sure if he liked the guy or not. the next day, he went out with a band friend and got them started.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.15/M tokens | — |
| Output price | $0.6/M tokens | — |
| Context window | 262K tokens | 1K tokens |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | — |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Jun 2018 |
| At 10M a month | $1.50 | not listed |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
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Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Mistral Small 4 is developed by Mistral AI while GPT-1 is developed by OpenAI. Mistral Small 4 has a 262K token context window vs GPT-1's 1K. You can compare their actual outputs across 7 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Mistral Small 4 and GPT-1 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 7 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
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