Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet by Anthropic against Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI, context windows of 200K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Mistral Medium 3
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Mistral Medium 3 is 15x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Input
$6.00
Output
$30.00
Mistral Medium 3
Input
$0.40
15× cheaper
Output
$2.00
15× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper on both — 15× input, 15× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Mistral Medium 3 uses 6.0x more emoji
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Mistral Medium 3
61%Vocabulary57%
49wSentence Length17w
0.64Hedging0.73
2.2Bold8.6
4.5Lists6.5
0.00Emoji0.06
1.81Headings1.18
0.21Transitions0.15
Based on 21 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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