Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Opus offers 334.5K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small. Mistral Small is $89.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small was created as an efficient model offering, designed to provide capable language understanding with reduced computational requirements. Built to serve cost-sensitive applications while maintaining quality, it enables Mistral's technology in scenarios where resource efficiency is valued.
6 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Mistral Small
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Mistral Small

Claude 3 Opus

Mistral Small

Mistral Small
Mistral AI