Mitra vs TabPFN vs XGBoost: Free Mitra Beats Trees on Small Tables
Mitra-v2 is Apache 2.0 and beats tuned XGBoost on TabArena, but caps context at 32,768 rows. TabPFN-3.5 scales to a million rows behind an unpublished commercial licence, and trees still win on large, temporal and CPU-bound work.
October 6, 2026 · 11 min read