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Claude Opus 4.8vsMistral Medium 3.5

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Mistral Medium 3.5 is 3.3x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
Mistral Medium 3.5
3.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.8
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Mistral AI
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5
Output /1M
$25
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
17 · 13 core
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral AI · released 2026-04-28
textvision
Context
256K
Max out
Input /1M
$1.5
Output /1M
$7.5
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
3 · 2 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral Medium 3.5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
SWE-bench Verified88.6% 77.6% +11 ptClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Elo1452.7 1420.6 +32.1Claude Opus 4.8
Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 14
GPQA Diamond93.6% not reported
AIME 2026100% matharenanot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)49.8% not reported
BrowseComp84.3% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)56.1% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)80% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.9% not reported
OSWorld-Verified83.4% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.3% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified53% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Multilingual84.4% not reported
SWE-bench Multimodal38.4% not reported
SWE-Bench Pro69.2% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.174.6% not reported
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 reports · 1
Tau3 Telecomnot reported91.4
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.8 minus Mistral Medium 3.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Opus 4.8Mistral Medium 3.5Edge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensClaude Opus 4.8
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$5 $1.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Output price / 1M$25 $7.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Cached input / 1M$0.5 $0.15 Mistral Medium 3.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30$9Mistral Medium 3.5
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-05-282026-04-28
Cited benchmark scores173
Reliability

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