Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Devstral Medium
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI, in 16 community votes, claude sonnet 4 wins 73% of head-to-head duels, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 83% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4Winner
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4. In 16 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 73% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Sonnet 4 particularly excels in Image Generation, Web Design. Mistral Devstral Medium is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4
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
49%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 87.9x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 4
Mistral Devstral Medium
62%Vocabulary50%
111wSentence Length17w
0.40Hedging0.56
5.0Bold4.5
9.3Lists5.3
0.88Emoji0.00
2.16Headings0.19
0.33Transitions0.32
Based on 17 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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