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Mistral Large 4 alternatives, tested on day 7

The other AI models Day 7 has checked, ranked by stamp: Delivered first, then Partly, Not yet and Too early. Within a stamp, more user reports rank higher.

Mistral Large 4 itself is stamped Too early: read its receipt.

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No. 009 · Google · launched 6 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
EmbeddingGemma 2
Claims ✓3 ~2 ✗0 ?0 · 16 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
The open weights, shared multimodal space and smaller sizes check out in independent tests; multilingual parity is shaky outside English, and runtime support arrived late.
Delivered
02
No. 008 · DeepSeek · launched 17 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Claims ✓3 ~1 ✗0 ?0 · 14 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
Independent benchmarks now confirm the gains over the September build, and it is live and MIT-licensed as promised; it is still verbose and sometimes bends task rules.
Delivered
03
No. 002 · Anthropic · launched 22 Sept 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
Claude Opus 5.5
Claims ✓2 ~2 ✗0 ?1 · 10 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
The 20% price cut and 30% speed-up check out, and Epoch and Agent Arena put it at Fable level. It uses more tokens, so cost per task isn't 40% lower.
Delivered
04
No. 007 · Meta · launched 15 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
Muse Spark Open
Claims ✓3 ~0 ✗0 ?1 · 7 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
The weights, licence and specs check out, and it's live on Baseten, Fireworks, Modal, Nebius and OpenRouter. The two-Mac-Studio desktop setup is still untested.
Delivered
05
No. 004 · OpenAI · launched 29 Sept 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
GPT-6.1 Sol
Claims ✓2 ~3 ✗0 ?0 · 7 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
Near-Astra performance for less money holds in independent tests, and the prices are as listed. Day-one access was patchy and Ultrafast is top-plan only.
Delivered
06
No. 005 · Google · launched 13 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Argon
Claims ✓2 ~1 ✗1 ?0 · 10 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
Live and priced as promised, and the cache discount does work under conditions, but Pro subscribers did not get Antigravity at launch as claimed.
Partly
07
No. 013 · Liquid AI · launched 27 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
LFM3
Claims ✓2 ~0 ✗0 ?1 · 6 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
It is as small and long-context as promised, but every comparison with the previous model is still Liquid's own, and one hands-on test found it fails coding and multi-step tasks.
Too early
08
No. 011 · OpenAI · launched 26 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
GPT-6.1 Terra
Claims ✓3 ~0 ✗1 ?0 · 2 reports · vs Mistral Large 4
Cheap and the coding gain is real, but independent timing finds it about 15 to 25% faster than Sol, nowhere near 3x.
Too early
09
No. 014 · Google DeepMind · launched 28 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon
Claims ✓2 ~0 ✗0 ?1 · 1 reports
The index ranking is confirmed by the index owner itself, but the headline cyber benchmark is still Google-only, and almost nobody can use the model.
Too early
10
No. 012 · Google DeepMind · launched 27 Oct 2026 · stamped 30 Oct 2026
Genie 4
Claims ✓1 ~0 ✗0 ?2 · 1 reports
The preview is real, but nobody outside Google has used it, and close looks at its own demos find drift and physics errors.
Too early

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