Question 1

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 has cheaper input tokens ($2.00/M), while Mistral Large has cheaper output tokens ($6.00/M). The best value depends on your input-to-output ratio.

Question 2

Which is faster, GPT-4.1 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 is faster at 88 tokens/sec with a TTFT of 260ms, compared to Mistral Large at 75 tokens/sec and 280ms TTFT.

Question 3

Which has a bigger context window, GPT-4.1 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 has a 1048K token context window, which is larger Mistral Large's 128K context window.

Question 4

Which is better for coding, GPT-4.1 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 has a higher coding ELO of 1320 compared to Mistral Large's 1240, making it the stronger choice for code generation and programming tasks.

Feature	GPT-4.1	Mistral Large
Provider	OpenAI	Mistral
Input Price / 1M tokens	$2.00	$0.500
Output Price / 1M tokens	$8.00	$1.50
Context Window	1.047576M	128K
Max Output Tokens	32,768	8,192
Arena ELO	1,290	1,245
Coding ELO	1,320	1,240
TTFT (ms)	260	280
Tokens/sec	88	75
Multimodal	Yes	No
JSON Mode	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Vision	Yes	No

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