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GPT-4 vs Claude vs Gemini vs Mistral — Full Comparison 2026

In-depth comparison of strengths, weaknesses, context windows, speed, and cost for every major model.

By CrowdAI Team
May 14, 2026
10 min read
GPT-4 vs Claude vs Gemini vs Mistral — Full Comparison 2026

At a glance

| Use case | Top pick | |----------|----------| | Coding | GPT-4o | | Writing | Claude 3.5 | | Research | Perplexity | | Long documents | Gemini 1.5 | | Cost-effective | Mistral |

GPT-4o (OpenAI)

Strengths: Reasoning, code, structured output, math. Context: 128K. Web: No.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic)

Strengths: Writing, documents, nuanced analysis. Context: 200K. Web: No.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (Google)

Strengths: Multimodal, 1M context, Google data. Context: 1M. Web: Yes.

Mistral Large

Strengths: Speed, EU privacy, cost. Context: 32K.

Perplexity

Strengths: Real-time web, citations. Context: 32K. Web: Yes.

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