Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 38.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 200.0K 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 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 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.
8 months newer

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

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


Claude Sonnet 4.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI