Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Mistral Small 4
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI, context windows of 200K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Mistral Small 4Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Mistral Small 4 is 25x 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 Small 4
Input
$0.15
20× cheaper
Output
$0.60
25× cheaper
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 25× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
31%
Mistral Small 4 uses 19.0x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Mistral Small 4
66%Vocabulary50%
74wSentence Length18w
0.72Hedging0.58
0.3Bold9.0
8.9Lists5.6
0.00Emoji0.19
0.06Headings1.10
0.09Transitions0.12
Based on 21 + 23 text responses
Research
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