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Week 45, 2026 standings1 Claude Opus 5.5 962 Gemini 4 Carbon 953 GPT-6 Astra 934 GPT-6.1 Sol 935 Claude Sonnet 5.5 926 Gemini 4 Argon 917 Claude Fable 5.1 908 Muse Wonder 899 Kimi K3.1 Pro 8810 Claude Haiku 5.5 87Week 45, 2026 standings1 Claude Opus 5.5 962 Gemini 4 Carbon 953 GPT-6 Astra 934 GPT-6.1 Sol 935 Claude Sonnet 5.5 926 Gemini 4 Argon 917 Claude Fable 5.1 908 Muse Wonder 899 Kimi K3.1 Pro 8810 Claude Haiku 5.5 87

Mistral AI · Language model

Mistral Large 4

Mistral's trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts, nicknamed 'Le Chonk'. It launched as an API preview on October 6, and the weights went up on Hugging Face at the end of October.

#7Best Value #4Open-Weight Watch

MakerMistral AI

ReleasedOctober 6, 2026

API price (per 1M tokens)$1.36 in / $4.18 out

Open weightsYes

List price after the launch sale ended on October 22. Cached input $0.14.

Best for

European teams that want a European model
Self-hosting on data-centre GPUs
Fine-tuning a large open base

Strengths

Downloadable weights in FP8 and NVFP4, with community GGUF builds
A big jump on Mistral Large 3 in independent testing
Cheaper per token than the US $2 / $10 tier

Watch out for

Mistral's modified MIT license requires a separate commercial license if you sell it as a hosted service
About 1 trillion parameters: far beyond any home PC
Still well behind the frontier models in independent tests

Ranking history

Edition	Power Rankings	Coding	Best Value	Open-Weight Watch	Image Generation	Video Generation
Week 45, 2026	—	—	#7 (86)	#4 (86)	—	—