GPT-5 vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •GPT-5 is meaningfully stronger at coding (88 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at speed (80 vs 68).
- •GPT-5 is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| GPT-5 | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓400,000 tokens (128,000 max output) | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$1.25 | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | 4000 |
| Release date | 2025-08 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.9% | - |
| AIME 2025 | 94.6% | - |
| GPQA (GPT-5 pro) | 88.4% | - |
| 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 GPT-5 if...
- →You want strong reasoning at the lowest frontier-model price
- →Existing GPT-5-based systems that are already tuned and validated
- →General coding, math, and reasoning workloads on a budget
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)