GPT-5.4 nano vs Mistral Large 4: cost
For a typical support chatbot, GPT-5.4 nano is about 2.0× cheaper than Mistral Large 4 ($91.56 vs $182 per month). Price is only one factor: test both on your own prompts before switching.
| GPT-5.4 nano | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input /1M | $0.20 | $0.68 |
| Output /1M | $1.25 | $2.09 |
| Cached input /1M | $0.02 | $0.068 |
| Batch input /1M | $0.10 | — |
| Batch output /1M | $0.625 | — |
| Context window | 400,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max input | 272,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max output | 128,000 | — |
Monthly cost by workload
| Scenario (per month) | GPT-5.4 nano | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Customer support chatbot 5,000 req/day · 1,200 in · 400 out · cache 60% | $91.56 | $182 |
| RAG over documents 2,000 req/day · 8,000 in · 600 out · cache 30% | $115 | $314 |
| Coding agent 1,500 req/day · 25,000 in · 2,000 out · cache 80% | $176 | $402 |
| Deep reasoning 800 req/day · 3,000 in · 6,000 out · cache 20% | $192 | $341 |
| Batch processing 50,000 req/day · 1,500 in · 150 out · batch | $366 | $2,000 |