Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~anthropic | mistralai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 6.1 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.15/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $0.60/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 209,715 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 7.7 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Mistral Small 4 costs $0.30 and Claude Sonnet Latest costs $4.50, so Mistral Small 4 is about 15.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Sonnet Latest reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Mistral Small 4.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Claude Sonnet Latest scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Mistral Small 4 on 7 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, Frontend Component Design and others).
Claude Sonnet Latest was released in April 2026 and Mistral Small 4 in March 2026.
Pick Claude Sonnet Latest if you need long documents; pick Mistral Small 4 if you need lower cost.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 132 |
| Code Review | 132 | 127 |
| Code Completion | 117 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 129 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 131 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 122 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 127 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 120 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 118 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 125 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 132 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 123 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 118 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 136 | 130 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 113 | 124 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →