Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 30.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 264.0K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is $17.79 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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 Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI