Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral Small 3.2 costs 99% less at typical usage ($0.15 vs $10.0 per 1M tokens). Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on 11 of 11 tasks.

Spec	Claude Opus 4.5	Mistral Small 3.2
Input /1M	$5.00	$0.10
Output /1M	$25.0	$0.30
Typical /1M	$10.0	$0.15
Context window	200k	128k
Speed	Measured	Blazing
Privacy	Strong	Self-host
Open weights	No	Yes

Claude Opus 4.5

Steady since we started tracking (Jul 13, 2026)

Mistral Small 3.2

Steady since we started tracking (Jul 13, 2026)

Quality by task

Coding99/74

Agents99/68

Reasoning98/74

Writing96/78

Chat92/82

Classify90/82

Extract92/80

Summarize94/80

Translate90/84

Vision93/76

General96/76

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