What is the difference between Claude Sonnet 4 and Mistral Medium 3?

Claude Sonnet 4 is developed by Anthropic while Mistral Medium 3 is developed by Mistral AI. Claude Sonnet 4 has a 200K token context window vs Mistral Medium 3's 131K. in 42 community votes on Rival, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 58% of head-to-head matchups. These results are based on blind head-to-head voting across 54 challenges.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4 or Mistral Medium 3?

Based on 42 community votes on Rival, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 58% of head-to-head matchups against Mistral Medium 3. Claude Sonnet 4 is strongest in Image Generation, Reasoning. However, Mistral Medium 3 leads in Web Design, Analysis.

How much does Claude Sonnet 4 cost compared to Mistral Medium 3?

Claude Sonnet 4 costs $3/M input tokens and Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.4/M input tokens. Mistral Medium 3 is $2.60/M cheaper per input. The more expensive model wins 58% of duels, so the premium may be justified by quality.

How are Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Medium 3 votes collected on Rival?

Rival presents both models' outputs side-by-side in blind duels. Voters see the responses but don't know which model produced each one, eliminating brand bias. 42 votes have been collected for this pair across 54 challenges. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset.

Updated May 2025

Claude Sonnet 4vsMistral Medium 3

Claude Sonnet 4 wins 58% of 42 blind community votes against Mistral Medium 3 on Rival.

Claude Sonnet 4 and Mistral Medium 3 compared across 54 shared prompts
Spec	Claude Sonnet 4	Mistral Medium 3
Win rate	58%	42%
Input price	$3/M tokens	$0.4/M tokens
Output price	$15/M tokens	$2/M tokens
Context window	200K tokens	131K tokens
Parameters	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
Weights	Closed	—
Free API (OpenRouter)	No	No
Released	May 2025	May 2025