Flint vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (90 vs 0).
- •Flint is open-weights (free to self-host); Mistral OCR 4 is paid API only.
Specs comparison
| Flint | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Springboards | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | Not announced | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓Not announced | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | Not announced | 4000 |
| Release date | 2026-04 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Flint | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Novelty Bench | 7/10 | - |
| Intra-Model Similarity | 0.721 | - |
| NoveltyBench | 7.47 | - |
| OlmOCRBench | - | 85.20 |
| OmniDocBench | - | 93.07 |
| Human preference (head-to-head) | - | 72% win rate |
| Human evaluation (blind) | - | 72% |
| Human Evaluation (Blind Test) | - | 72% win rate |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Flint if...
- →When exploring diverse creative directions
- →For early-stage ideation and concept generation
- →When variety and novelty are more important than accuracy
Choose Mistral OCR 4 if...
- →You need to convert PDFs, scans, or office docs into structured text/Markdown
- →You require high-accuracy multilingual document parsing at low cost
- →You need tables, equations, and layout preserved with confidence scores
- →You must keep documents in-house (self-hosted deployment)