Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Mistral Devstral Medium
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Medium is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
7.5× cheaper
Output
$2.00
7.5× cheaper
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 7.5× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
56%
Mistral Devstral Medium uses 13.5x more bold
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Mistral Devstral Medium
66%Vocabulary50%
74wSentence Length17w
0.72Hedging0.56
0.3Bold4.5
8.9Lists5.3
0.00Emoji0.00
0.06Headings0.19
0.09Transitions0.32
Based on 21 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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