Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 leads with 34.3% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4 offers 264.0K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is $89.79 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Opus 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 was developed as the flagship model in the Claude 4 generation, designed to push the boundaries of AI capability in complex reasoning, analysis, and multi-step problem-solving. Built to handle the most demanding enterprise tasks, it represents Anthropic's highest tier of intelligence and capability.
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

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4

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

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Claude Opus 4

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI