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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendormistralaianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.369.7
Input Price$1.50/M$3.00/M
Output Price$7.50/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output209,715128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.449.6
aider_polyglot-61.3
eqbench-80.0

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 133 154
Code Review 130 161
Code Completion 115 120
Code Refactoring 131 162
Bug Fixing 134 166
Unit Test Generation 124 144
Code Documentation 126 142
Regex Writing 120 129
CI/CD Pipelines 120 138
Frontend Component Design 124 137
Data Analysis 127 147
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 145
ETL Scripting 125 150
JSON Extraction 122 125
Bulk Data Labeling 119 118
OCR / Document Parsing 129 140
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 140
Long-Document Summarization 132 161
Short-Form Summarization 115 118
Blog Post Writing 121 137

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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