Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 offers 462.5K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small. Mistral Small is $10.45 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-5 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 is a multimodal language model developed by OpenAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 70.1% across 35 benchmarks. It excels particularly in SWE-Lancer (IC-Diamond subset) (100.0%), COLLIE (99.0%), Tau2 Telecom (96.7%). It supports a 528K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents OpenAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small is a language model developed by Mistral AI. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
10 months newer
Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
GPT-5
OpenAI
2025-08-07
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-5
Mistral Small
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 35 common benchmarks
GPT-5
Mistral Small
GPT-5
2024-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5
OpenAI
ZeroEval
GPT-5
Mistral Small
GPT-5
Mistral Small
Mistral Small
Mistral AI