$ diff mistral-large-4 claude-sonnet-5-5
Mistral Large 4 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
Values come from Mistral Large 4 and Claude Sonnet 5.5, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Mistral AIMistral Large 4
- context
- 1M
- weights
- —
- $/M in
- $1.36
- $/M out
- $4.18
- context
- 1M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $10
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Input price
- Mistral Large 4 at $1.36/M against $2/M — 1.5× cheaper to feed. Standard rates: one of these labs also quotes a lower cached-input tier, which applies only when a prefix is reused — see the full spec below.
- Output price
- Mistral Large 4 at $4.18/M against $10/M — 2.4× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Recency
- Mistral Large 4 shipped 8 days after Claude Sonnet 5.5 (2026-10-06 vs 2026-09-28).
Full spec
| Attribute | Mistral Large 4 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Mistral AI | Anthropic |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-28 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M tokens |
| Pricing | $1.36/M input · $4.18/M output (announcement) | $2/M input · $10/M output · cache reads 10% of base input |
| License | not recorded | proprietary (API-only; no weight release) |
| Availability | Mistral Studio API preview; weights promised by end of October 2026 | Claude apps, Claude API as `claude-sonnet-5-5`, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry, Claude Platform on AWS |