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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs GPT-5.4

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Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
OpenAI
GPT-5.4
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateApr 29 2026Mar 5 2026
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
128B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
92.8%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGPT-5.4 shipped 55 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or GPT-5.4?

Mistral Medium 3.5 and GPT-5.4 are evenly matched across the benchmarks they both publish. GPT-5.4 shipped 55 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5.4 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
When was GPT-5.4 released?
GPT-5.4 was released by OpenAI on Mar 5 2026.
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or GPT-5.4 open source?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. GPT-5.4 is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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