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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Mistral Large: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

GPT-4.1 Mini is significantly cheaper at $0.40/$1.60 per million tokens vs $2.00/$6.00. GPT-4.1 Mini is faster at 115 tokens/sec vs 75 tokens/sec. GPT-4.1 Mini offers a larger 1048K context window vs 128K.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureGPT-4.1 MiniMistral Large
ProviderOpenAIMistral
Input Price / 1M tokens$0.400$0.500
Output Price / 1M tokens$1.60$1.50
Context Window1.047576M128K
Max Output Tokens32,7688,192
Arena ELO1,2401,245
Coding ELO1,2301,240
TTFT (ms)190280
Tokens/sec11575
MultimodalYesNo
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesNo
When to Use GPT-4.1 Mini

Choose GPT-4.1 Mini when you need: 1m token context window at low cost, great balance of speed and quality, strong coding for a mini model, affordable for high-volume use. It excels at chatbots, long-context, cost-sensitive tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two. Its 1048K context window is larger, making it better for long-document processing.

Strengths:

  • 1M token context window at low cost
  • Great balance of speed and quality
  • Strong coding for a mini model
  • Affordable for high-volume use

Best for:

chatbotslong-contextcost-sensitive
When to Use Mistral Large

Choose Mistral Large when you need: strong multilingual support, good coding capabilities, european ai alternative, open-weight model available. It excels at coding, multilingual, general-purpose tasks.

Strengths:

  • Strong multilingual support
  • Good coding capabilities
  • European AI alternative
  • Open-weight model available

Best for:

codingmultilingualgeneral-purpose

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