Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance across reasoning, coding, and comp…
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Mistral Large 3 2512 is Mistral’s most capable model to date, featuring a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 41B active parameters (675B total), and released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 200K | 262K | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.00 | $0.50 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $5.00 | $1.50 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512?
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512?
Input: $1.00 vs $0.50 per 1M tokens. Output: $5.00 vs $1.50 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 support?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports up to 200K tokens. Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5: yes. Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512: yes.