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Mistral Small Creative vs GPT-5.2 Pro

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Mistral Small Creative wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens

GPT-5.2 Pro wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision
Price Advantage
Mistral Small Creative
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5.2 Pro
Context Window
GPT-5.2 Pro
Speed
GPT-5.2 Pro

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricMistral Small CreativeGPT-5.2 ProWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.10$21.00 Mistral Small Creative
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.30$168.00 Mistral Small Creative
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Mistral Small Creative is 100% cheaper overall.

Mistral Small Creative Providers

Mistral $0.10 (Cheapest)

GPT-5.2 Pro Providers

OpenAI $21.00 (Cheapest)

Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
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Mistral Small Creative Wins
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GPT-5.2 Pro Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkMistral Small CreativeGPT-5.2 ProWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
-51.2-
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
-48.7-
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
-99.0-
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
-87.4-
GPQA
Graduate-level science
-90.3-
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
-88.9-
GPT-5.2 Pro significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Mistral Small Creative
32,768
tokens
GPT-5.2 Pro
400,000
tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
GPT-5.2 Pro has a 92% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricMistral Small CreativeGPT-5.2 ProWinner
Tokens/secondN/A99.7 tok/s
Time to First TokenN/A27.00s

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMistral Small CreativeGPT-5.2 Pro
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMistral Small CreativeGPT-5.2 Pro
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorMistral AIOpenAI
ReleasedDec 2025Dec 2025

Mistral Small Creative Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

GPT-5.2 Pro Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mistral Small Creative has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Mistral Small Creative has cheaper output pricing at $0.30/M tokens.
GPT-5.2 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 48.7, compared to Mistral Small Creative's score of N/A.
Mistral Small Creative has a 32,768 token context window, while GPT-5.2 Pro has a 400,000 token context window.
Mistral Small Creative does not support vision. GPT-5.2 Pro supports vision.