GPT-4o mini vs Mistral Small 3

OpenAI · Mistral · catalog 2026-09-14

Mistral Small 3 beats GPT-4o mini: cheaper ($0.12 vs $0.139/M) and at least as smart (index 6.7 vs 6.7).

	GPT-4o mini	Mistral Small 3
Speed (tok/s)	150.9 measured	146.2 measured
Blended $/M	$0.139 derived	$0.12 derived
Intelligence index	6.7 measured	6.7 measured
TTFT (ms)	1 measured	78 measured
Context	128k list	—
Coding index	not measured for both
Agentic index	not measured for both

GPT-4o mini card · Mistral Small 3 card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.