Mistral OCR 4 vs o1
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (96 vs 35 on our capability index).
- •o1 is meaningfully stronger at coding (82 vs 5).
- •o1 is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Mistral OCR 4 | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | Not announced | ✓200,000 tokens (100,000 max output) |
| Input / 1M tokens | 4000 | ✓$15.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | 4000 | $60.00 |
| Release date | 2026-06 | 2024-12 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Mistral OCR 4 | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | - |
| AIME 2024 | - | 74% |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 77.3% |
| Codeforces | - | ~89th percentile |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
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)
Choose o1 if...
- →Hard, multi-step math, science, and logic problems that reward deliberate reasoning
- →Competitive programming and algorithmic problem solving
- →Existing o1-based pipelines already validated for reasoning tasks