Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Codex leads with 6.5% higher average benchmark score. Overall, GPT-5 Codex is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Devstral 2, released by Mistral AI on December 9, 2025, is a 123 billion parameter dense transformer model specifically designed for software engineering tasks. It features a 256K token context window and achieved 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified at release, making it a competitive open-weight option for automated coding and agentic development. Devstral 2 targets code generation, multi-file software engineering, and agentic development workflows under a modified MIT license.
OpenAI
GPT-5 Codex, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a coding-specialized large language model from the GPT-5 family engineered for software engineering, code generation, and agentic development workflows. It builds on GPT-5's architecture with optimizations targeting multi-file code editing, test generation, and automated debugging. GPT-5 Codex targets developers and agentic coding tools requiring a model tuned specifically for programming tasks.
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OpenAI
2025-08

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Mistral AI
2025-12-09
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
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OpenRouter
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