Mistral Medium 3 is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal performance with 8× lowe…
Model details →Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 vs OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended)
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") is OpenAI's latest AI model, supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. It maintains the intelligence level of [GPT-4 Turbo](/models/openai/gpt-4-turbo) while being twice as fast and 50% more cost-effec…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 | OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended) | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 131K | 128K | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.40 | $6.00 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $18.00 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 better than OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended)?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 and OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended)?
Input: $0.40 vs $6.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $2.00 vs $18.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 and OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended) support?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 supports up to 131K tokens. OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended) supports up to 128K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 and OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended) support tool calling?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3: yes. OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended): yes.