Mistral Large 4 debuts at #45 on Code Arena WebDev, near Opus 4.8 at 1/6 the price
arena · x · 2026-10-08
LMArena announced that Mistral Large 4 (preview) entered Code Arena: WebDev at #45 with 1534 points—a +304 point jump over Mistral Large 3 (#133)—making Mistral the only European lab in the top 15.
Key details:
- Just 2 points behind Claude Opus 4.8 (High) at a 6× lower blended price ($3.47/M vs $20/M tokens), though slightly off the Pareto frontier
- +271 points over Mistral Medium 3.5 (#122)
- Scores may shift as training continues; open-weights release expected end of October
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