Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 12.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 336.0K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is $17.79 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 24B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the 24B base model, designed to follow user instructions reliably. Built to serve general-purpose applications requiring moderate capability, it balances performance with deployment practicality.
3 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI