In the October 6, 2026, Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 comparison, Mistral Large 4 Preview scored 38. Five listed Chinese open-weight models scored higher, from 39 to 46. Its cybersecurity results told a more varied story: Mistral scored 50 on the Cyber Index and 81.7% on one separate component test. NeoTeo previously covered Mistral Large 4’s public-preview announcement.

How Mistral Large 4 Preview scored against open-weight models

The comparison placed Mistral Large 4 Preview below five listed Chinese open-weight models. Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro led these six entries at 46, eight points above Mistral’s 38.

ModelIntelligence Index score
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro46
Z.ai GLM-5.3 (max)45
Moonshot Kimi K3 (max)44
Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash42
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)39
Mistral Large 4 Preview38

These are scores from one named index and one dated comparison, not a single verdict on performance across every kind of task. The cybersecurity measures, for example, produce a different ordering.

Cybersecurity results vary by test

Mistral Large 4 Preview scored 50 on the Cyber Index, matching Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash in the results below. The Cyber Index is the aggregate measure; CWE-Bench-AA, DeepsecBench-AA and CyberGym-E2E-AA are separate component tests.

Model and variantCyber IndexCWE-Bench-AADeepsecBench-AACyberGym-E2E-AA
Grok 4.7 (xhigh)5668%27%74%
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro5663%26%79%
OpenAI GPT-6 Luna (max)5357%24%78%
Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash5056%20%74%
Mistral Large 4 Preview5051%16%81.7%

The 81.7% CyberGym-E2E-AA result is Mistral’s strongest figure in these component tests, but it does not replace the aggregate Cyber Index score. The other two component results—51% on CWE-Bench-AA and 16% on DeepsecBench-AA—show why the individual test matters when interpreting the profile.

What creator-run coding demonstrations show

A Wikipedia redesign and LEGO South Park coding demonstration
Eight KingBench 3 coding tasks and their reported score

Separate coding demonstrations tested tasks that differ from the index comparison. In one, a Wikipedia redesign placed 13th on the creator’s leaderboard, while a LEGO South Park game world placed 9th. The demonstrations showed a narrow, mobile-style redesign with animation issues, and gameplay problems involving movement and physics.

A separate eight-task KingBench 3 run used OpenCode through OpenRouter and reported a permission-corrected score of 42/80 (52.5%). An elevator simulation and a Three.js folding table worked in the demonstration; default runs of a contact-lens case and a counting task produced no file or answer. Retry and repair runs were excluded from the score.

These task-specific results offer a practical view of generated prototypes, but they are separate creator-run demonstrations, not standardized substitutes for the index scores.

The preview and Mistral’s planned weight release

The benchmark comparison evaluated Mistral Large 4 Preview through Mistral’s API. Mistral planned to release the model’s weights by the end of October 2026; that was the company’s stated plan when it announced the preview.