Claude Opus 4.6 vs Mistral Small 4
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6
Mistral Small 4Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Small 4 is 42x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Mistral Small 4
Input
$0.15
33× cheaper
Output
$0.60
42× cheaper
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper on both — 33× input, 42× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
59%
Mistral Small 4 uses 4.4x more transitions
Claude Opus 4.6
Mistral Small 4
53%Vocabulary50%
35wSentence Length18w
0.68Hedging0.58
5.2Bold9.0
2.9Lists5.6
0.21Emoji0.19
1.34Headings1.10
0.03Transitions0.12
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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