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GPT-6 Solvs.Mistral Medium 3.5
Which one is better?
GPT-6 Sol performs better than Mistral Medium 3.5, but costs 1.3 times as much.
GPT-6 Sol
Rank 13
Mistral Medium 3.5
Rank 88
GPT-6 Sol
Mistral Medium 3.5
GPT-6 Sol
Mistral Medium 3.5
GPT-6 Sol
Rank 3 of 785
Mistral Medium 3.5
Rank 344 of 785
Above 272,000 tokens of context, GPT-6 Sol costs more: $4 input and $15 output per 1M tokens.
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Where is the difference?
Strengths at a glance
GPT-6 SolMistral Medium 3.5Median of all ranked models
95 % range: GPT-6 Sol 112.2 to 117.6, Mistral Medium 3.5 44.5 to 58.0.
The same values and verdicts as the bars below. In the close-up the net starts at 25 points, just below the weaker model's lowest value; the reference group average is 100.
GPT-6 Sol is ahead in 10 of 10 areas, Mistral Medium 3.5 in none.
GPT-6 Sol ahead: 10
Bar length shows the gap in index points (full width 15 points, one standard deviation of the reference group). Solid means clearly ahead, hatched not certain yet, a thin grey bar level.
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Bar length shows the gap in index points (full width 15 points, one standard deviation of the reference group). Solid means clearly ahead, hatched not certain yet, a thin grey bar level.
Which model for which task?
Everyday tasks, translated from the area values above. Each row names the values it rests on.
See for yourself: same task, one attempt
The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.
GPT-6 Sol

Oct 1, 2026 · 80 s · $0.04
Test details
- Run date
- Oct 1, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- openai/gpt-6-sol
- Reasoning setting
- high
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Output tokens
- 4,389 tokens
- Cost of the attempt
- $0.0439
- Response time
- 80.5 s
- API model reported in response
- openai/gpt-6-sol
- Pinned endpoint
- OpenAI | openai/gpt-6-sol-20260922
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Test protocol
- community-visual-tests-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Mistral Medium 3.5

Oct 1, 2026 · 39 s · $0.06
Test details
- Run date
- Oct 1, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5
- Reasoning setting
- high
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Output tokens
- 8,128 tokens
- Cost of the attempt
- $0.0610
- Response time
- 38.7 s
- API model reported in response
- mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5
- Pinned endpoint
- Mistral | mistralai/mistral-medium-3.5-20260430
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Test protocol
- community-visual-tests-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Earlier attempts (1)
- Sep 7, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high
SVG short test
SVG short test
One SVG task with the same fixed settings for every model, without hidden thinking.
Prompt
Return only one standalone SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. Use viewBox="0 0 800 600", simple shapes, two clearly visible wheels and a recognizable pelican with a long beak. At most 30 SVG elements and 1800 characters. No Markdown, explanations, comments, scripts, animation, CSS or external resources.
GPT-6 Sol
Unavailable in this round
Mistral Medium 3.5

Oct 14, 2026 · $0.0039
Test details
- Test run
- Oct 14, 2026
- Provider
- mistral
- API model
- mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5
- Output
- 502 tokens
- Reasoning
- API reports 0 reasoning tokens
- Cost of the attempt
- $0.0039
- Test round
- 43b8c5c46830
GPT-6 Sol and Mistral Medium 3.5 in the overall index
Every model with a place in the overall index, both models of this matchup highlighted. You can add or hide other models.
Overall index (Gradually Meta-Score v4)
20 of 92 models
5 models in this view are measured at a lower reasoning effort than max in the overall index. Dashed column: lower reasoning effort than the top.
Popularity compared
How often the models are searched for, used and mentioned, on a scale from 0 to 100.
GPT-6 Sol is more popular than Mistral Medium 3.5: 73 to 37 out of 100.
Over time
Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 7, 2026
GPT-6 SolMistral Medium 3.5
All data side by side
The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.
| Metric | GPT-6 Sol | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | ||
| Overall indexpoints, 100 = reference group average, higher is better | 110.5 | 46.8 |
| Rank | Rank 13 of 92 | Rank 88 of 92 |
| Price per 1M tokens | ||
| Inputwhat you send | $2above 272,000 tokens: $4 | $1.50 |
| Outputwhat the model writes | $10above 272,000 tokens: $15 | $7.50 |
| Cost per task (own tests)average of 3 original-protocol tasks both models passed (SVG short test not included) | $0.044 | $0.087 |
| Speed | ||
| Tokens per second | 111 | 144 |
| Popularity | ||
| Popularitysearch, usage and mentions, 0 to 100 | 73Rank 3 of 785 | 37Rank 344 of 785 |
| Technical | ||
| Context windowhow much text the model reads at once | 1.05 M tokens≈ 1,580 A4 pages | 262,144 tokens≈ 390 A4 pages |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 20, 2026 | n/a |
| Released | Sep 22, 2026 | Apr 28, 2026 |
| Availability | Active | Active |
| Open weights | no | yes |
Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis
Is there a better choice?
Overall index 119.2, rank 7$2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5 vs. GPT-6.1 SolOverall index 107.4, rank 15$1.25 input and $4.25 output per 1M tokens
GPT-6 Sol vs. Muse Spark 1.3Overall index 126.1, rank 1$4 input and $20 output per 1M tokens
GPT-6 Sol vs. Claude Opus 5.5Shared benchmarks
Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.
A: GPT-6 SolB: Mistral Medium 3.5
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- 9Claude Opus 4.8 vs. GPT-6 Sol
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- 19GPT-6 Sol vs. Qwen 3.8 Max 0902
- 20Claude Sonnet 5 vs. GPT-6 Sol
- 21GPT-6 Sol vs. Kimi K3
- 22Claude Fable 5.1 vs. GPT-6 Sol
- 23GPT-6 Sol vs. DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 24Claude Opus 5.5 vs. Mistral Medium 3.5
- 25GPT-6 Sol vs. GPT-5.6 Luna
- 26Claude Opus 5 vs. GPT-6 Sol
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- 28GPT-6 Sol vs. Mistral Large 4
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- 30GPT-6 Sol vs. Gemini 4 Argon
- 31GPT-6 Sol vs. Gemini 3.6 Flash
- 32Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-6 Sol
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- 34GPT-6 Sol vs. Muse Wonder
- 35Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs. Mistral Medium 3.5
- 36Claude Haiku 4.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol
- 37GPT-6 Sol vs. GPT-5.5
- 38GPT-6 Luna vs. Mistral Medium 3.5
- 39GLM-5.2 vs. Mistral Medium 3.5
- 40GPT-6.1 Terra vs. GPT-6 Sol
- 41Mistral Large 4 vs. Mistral Medium 3.5
- 42GPT-6 Sol vs. Gemini 4 Carbon