Claude Opus 4.6 vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Mistral Medium 3.1 by Mistral AI, in 2 community votes, claude opus 4.6 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6Winner
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up
Pick Claude Opus 4.6. In 2 blind votes, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Mistral Medium 3.1 is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
13× cheaper
Output
$2.00
13× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on both — 13× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
54%
Mistral Medium 3.1 uses 6.5x more transitions
Claude Opus 4.6
Mistral Medium 3.1
53%Vocabulary52%
35wSentence Length22w
0.68Hedging0.45
5.2Bold10.4
2.9Lists5.9
0.21Emoji0.39
1.34Headings1.12
0.03Transitions0.18
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