Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose GPT-5.3-Codex if you want codex CLI users and dedicated coding agents. Choose Mistral Large 3 if you want general-purpose open-weight agent work, especially in the EU.
In our editorial scoring, GPT-5.3-Codex leads in 3 of five dimensions (output quality, agentic ability and reliability), while Mistral Large 3 leads in 2. On price, GPT-5.3-Codex runs about $5.42 per 1M tokens (blended) and is proprietary; Mistral Large 3 is about $0.80 and open-weight.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.