Claude 2 vs Mistral Small 4
Compare Claude 2 by Anthropic against Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI, context windows of 100K vs 262K, tested across 5 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 2
Mistral Small 4
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Mistral Small 4 is 54x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 2
Input
$11.02
Output
$32.68
Mistral Small 4
Input
$0.15
73× cheaper
Output
$0.60
54× cheaper
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper on both — 73× input, 54× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
32%
Mistral Small 4 uses 58.0x more hedging
Claude 2
Mistral Small 4
65%Vocabulary50%
13wSentence Length18w
0.00Hedging0.58
0.0Bold9.0
10.2Lists5.6
0.00Emoji0.19
0.00Headings1.10
0.00Transitions0.12
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