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GPT-5.6 SolvsMistral Small 4
GPT-5.6 Sol leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Mistral Small 4 is 32x cheaper per token. GPT-5.6 Sol has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
GPT-5.6 Sol leads
Cheaper per token
Mistral Small 4
32x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.6 Sol
1.1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
95.1515% · 100%
OpenAI · Mistral AI
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI · released 2026-07-09
textvision
Mistral Small 4
Mistral AI · released 2026-03-16
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 6 only GPT-5.6 Sol · 2 only Mistral Small 4| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Sol | Mistral Small 4 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 94.6% ↗ | 71.2% ↗ | +23.4 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Only GPT-5.6 Sol reports · 6 | ||||
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 82.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 89.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 64.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Mistral Small 4 reports · 2 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 78% ↗ | — | — |
| Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning | not reported | 0.72 ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5.6 Sol minus Mistral Small 4 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-5.6 Sol | Mistral Small 4 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.1M tokens | 256K tokens | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $4 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Mistral Small 4 |
| Output price / 1M | $20 ↗ | $0.6 ↗ | Mistral Small 4 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.4 ↗ | $0.015 ↗ | Mistral Small 4 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $24 | $0.75 | Mistral Small 4 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-07-09 | 2026-03-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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