Side by side pricing and context for Mistral Large 3 and GPT-4.1 Mini. Rates are curated catalog values with last verified dates on each model page.
Mistral Large 3
Mistral flagship for EU-friendly stacks and strong general performance at mid-tier prices. Good alternative when you want non-US frontier pricing.
Input $0.500 / Output $1.50 per 1M
Context 128K · Approx
GPT-4.1 Mini
Cheaper GPT-4.1 variant for the same long-context shape. Use for RAG and assistants where Mini quality is enough and you want Exact OpenAI token counts.
Input $0.400 / Output $1.60 per 1M
Context 1M · Exact (o200k_base)
Quick take
- GPT-4.1 Mini is cheaper on input in this catalog snapshot.
- Mistral Large 3 is cheaper on output in this catalog snapshot.
- Both last verified on their model pages (2026-08-02 / 2026-08-02).
Rate table
| Metric | Mistral Large 3 | GPT-4.1 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M | $0.500 | $0.400 |
| Output / 1M | $1.50 | $1.60 |
| Cached input / 1M | n/a | $0.100 |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Tokenizer | Approx | Exact (o200k_base) |