Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 offers 166.5K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small. Mistral Small is $89.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.1 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4.1 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 72.7% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (89.5%), TAU-bench Retail (82.4%), GPQA (80.9%). It supports a 232K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small is a language model developed by Mistral AI. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
10 months newer
Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Mistral Small
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 8 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.1
Mistral Small
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Opus 4.1
Mistral Small
Claude Opus 4.1
Mistral Small
Mistral Small
Mistral AI