Mistral Medium 3.1
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Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Claude Sonnet 4
Compare Mistral Medium 3.1 by Mistral AI against Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic, in 1 community votes, claude sonnet 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 131K vs 200K, tested across 34 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Mistral Medium 3.1 or Claude Sonnet 4?
Claude Sonnet 4 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 1 blind community votes on Rival. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs $0.4/M input tokens vs $3/M for Claude Sonnet 4. Context windows: 131K vs 200K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Mistral Medium 3.1 and Claude Sonnet 4
Mistral Medium 3.1 is made by mistral while Claude Sonnet 4 is from anthropic. Mistral Medium 3.1 has a 131K token context window compared to Claude Sonnet 4's 200K. On pricing, Mistral Medium 3.1 costs $0.4/M input tokens vs $3/M for Claude Sonnet 4. In community voting, In 1 community votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 1 community votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 1+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4Winner
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4. In 1 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Mistral Medium 3.1 is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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Style Comparison
Similarity
97%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 5.1x more sentence length
Mistral Medium 3.1
Claude Sonnet 4
52%Vocabulary62%
22wSentence Length111w
0.45Hedging0.40
10.4Bold5.0
5.9Lists9.3
0.39Emoji0.88
1.12Headings2.16
0.18Transitions0.33
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