Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 198.5K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small. Mistral Small is $17.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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.
1 year newer

Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Mistral Small
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


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