$ diff mistral-large-4 fugu-max
Mistral Large 4 vs Fugu Max
Values come from Mistral Large 4 and Fugu Max, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Mistral AIMistral Large 4
- context
- 1M
- weights
- —
- $/M in
- $1.36
- $/M out
- $4.18
- context
- 1M
- weights
- —
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Input price
- Mistral Large 4 at $1.36/M against $2/M — 1.5× cheaper to feed.
- Output price
- Mistral Large 4 at $4.18/M against $6/M — 1.4× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Recency
- Mistral Large 4 shipped 25 days after Fugu Max (2026-10-06 vs 2026-09-11).
Full spec
| Attribute | Mistral Large 4 | Fugu Max |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Mistral AI | Sakana AI |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-11 |
| Context window | 1M | 1,000,000 |
| Pricing | $1.36/M input · $4.18/M output (announcement) | $2/M input · $6/M output |
| License | not recorded | not recorded |
| Availability | Mistral Studio API preview; weights promised by end of October 2026 | Sakana API (OpenAI-compatible), OpenRouter, NanoGPT, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway |