Mistral Large 2 vs GPT-4.1

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Large 2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 68.9 against 26.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 70 to 26.4. GPT-4.1 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4.1 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Knowledge

GPT-4.1

Mistral Large 2

58.7

GPT-4.1

78.3

68
MMLU
90.2
68
GPQA
66.3
66
SuperGPQA
-
64
OpenBookQA
-
74
MMLU-Pro
-
12
HLE
-

Coding

GPT-4.1

Mistral Large 2

49

GPT-4.1

54.6

60
HumanEval
-
49
SWE-bench Verified
54.6
38
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

68.9

GPT-4.1

26.4

68
AIME 2023
-
70
AIME 2024
26.4
69
AIME 2025
-
64
HMMT Feb 2023
-
66
HMMT Feb 2024
-
65
HMMT Feb 2025
-
67
BRUMO 2025
-
82
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Mistral Large 2
66
SimpleQA
-
64
MuSR
-
82
BBH
-

Instruction Following

GPT-4.1

Mistral Large 2

83

GPT-4.1

87.4

83
IFEval
87.4

Multilingual

Mistral Large 2
81
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral Large 2 or GPT-4.1?

Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 64 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 70 and 26.4.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Large 2 or GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Large 2 or GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.6 versus 49. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mistral Large 2 or GPT-4.1?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 68.9 versus 26.4. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral Large 2 or GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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