Mistral Medium 3.5 vs GPT-5.4 mini
Mistral Mistral Medium 3.5 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | OpenAI |
| Release date | Apr 29 2026 | Mar 17 2026 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 128B | — |
Context window | 256k | 400k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 32% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 77.6% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | GPT-5.4 mini shipped 43 days before Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or GPT-5.4 mini?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and GPT-5.4 mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. GPT-5.4 mini shipped 43 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 400k (GPT-5.4 mini). Mistral Medium 3.5 is open weight, while GPT-5.4 mini is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and GPT-5.4 mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
GPT-5.4 mini was released by OpenAI on Mar 17 2026.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a 256k context window; GPT-5.4 mini has 400k.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open weight model released by Mistral. GPT-5.4 mini is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.