Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic against Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI, in 42 community votes, claude sonnet 4 wins 58% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Mistral Medium 3 wins 67% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 91% of votes
Reasoning: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 83% of votes
Analysis: Mistral Medium 3 wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4Winner
Mistral Medium 3Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4. In 42 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 58% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Sonnet 4 for Image Generation, Reasoning. Pick Mistral Medium 3 for Web Design, Analysis. Mistral Medium 3 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 Medium 3
Input
$0.40
7.5× cheaper
Output
$2.00
7.5× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper on both — 7.5× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
53%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 14.7x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 4
Mistral Medium 3
62%Vocabulary57%
111wSentence Length17w
0.40Hedging0.73
5.0Bold8.6
9.3Lists6.5
0.88Emoji0.06
2.16Headings1.18
0.33Transitions0.15
Based on 17 + 15 text responses
Research
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