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Claude Sonnet 4.5vsMistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Mistral Medium 3.5 is 2x cheaper per token. Mistral Medium 3.5 has the larger context window (256K tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
0 – 1
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Mistral Medium 3.5
2x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Mistral Medium 3.5
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Mistral AI
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic · released 2025-09-29
textvision
Context
200K
Max out
64K
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
$0.3
Scores
21 · 10 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 Sonnet 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 1
SWE-bench Verified77.2% 77.6% -0.4 ptMistral Medium 3.5
Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 reports · 19
GPQA Diamond83.4% not reported
AIME 202584.2% matharenanot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)17.7% not reported
ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)13.6% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)2.4% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)23.9% epochnot reported
GDPval-AA1276 not reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)33.6% not reported
MCP Atlas43.8% not reported
MMMLU89.5% not reported
MMMU-Pro (no tools)63.4% not reported
MMMU-Pro (with tools)68.9% not reported
OSWorld-Verified61.4% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)77.8% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified30.7% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)71.3% epochnot reported
Tau2-bench Retail86.2% not reported
Tau2-bench Telecom98% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.051% not reported
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 reports · 2
LMArena Elonot reported1420.6
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 Sonnet 4.5 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 Sonnet 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5Edge
Context window200K tokens256K tokensMistral Medium 3.5
Max output64K tokens
Input price / 1M$3 $1.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Output price / 1M$15 $7.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Cached input / 1M$0.3 $0.15 Mistral Medium 3.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$18$9Mistral Medium 3.5
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2025-09-292026-04-28
Cited benchmark scores213
Reliability

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