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: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct is a pretrained generative Sparse Mixture of Experts, by Mistral AI, for chat and instruction use. Incorporates 8 experts (feed-forward networks) for a total of 47 billion parameters. Instruct model fine-tuned by Mist…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 200K | 33K | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.00 | $0.54 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $5.00 | $0.54 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| 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: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 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: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Input: $1.00 vs $0.54 per 1M tokens. Output: $5.00 vs $0.54 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports up to 200K tokens. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5: yes. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct: yes.