LLM Comparison
Mistral Small 4 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated May 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 21 55.7 | 52 5.7 |
| Family | Mistral | Claude |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 262K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $0.15/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.60/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Cache read: $0.0150/M tokens | Cache read: $0.3000/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodetool-use | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | — | 128K tokens |
| API Identifier | mistralai/mistral-small-2603 | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 68.5mistral | — |
| HumanEval | 78.5mistral | — |
| MGSM | 72.3mistral | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 58.8mistral | 89.9anthropic |
| LiveCodeBench | 64mistral | 41.5anthropic |
| MMLU | — | 86.7anthropic |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.5anthropic |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 51anthropic |
| MATH 500 | — | 54.2anthropic |
| Berkeley Function Calling | — | 88.3anthropic |
| HLE | — | 30openrouter |
| GPQA-AA Elo | — | 1674artificial-analysis |
| View Mistral Small 4 | View Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Small 4Cheapest | $0.15 | $0.30 | $0.45 | — |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +2233% |
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4
Mistral Small 4 is a multimodal llm from Mistral AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Achieves 76.5% on MMLU. Available from $0.15/M input tokens.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal llm from Anthropic. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 88.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.
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