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Mistral: Mistral Large 4 vs OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-13.

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest
Vendormistralai~openai
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.68/M$0.10/M
Output Price$2.09/M$0.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,050,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT Luna Latest costs $0.23 and Mistral Large 4 costs $1.20, so GPT Luna Latest is about 5.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,575 pages.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, GPT Luna Latest on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Mistral Large 4 was released in October 2026 and GPT Luna Latest in September 2026.

Pick GPT Luna Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Large 4OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 131 131
Code Documentation 131 131
Regex Writing 119 119
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 121 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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