Claude Opus 4 is benchmarked as the world’s best coding model, at time of release, bringing sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. It sets new benchmarks in software engineering, achieving leading results …
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Mistral: Mistral Small 4 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Mistral Small 4 is the next major release in the Mistral Small family, unifying the capabilities of several flagship Mistral models into a single system. It combines strong reasoning from Magistral, multimodal understanding from Pixtral, an…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 200K | 262K | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $15.00 | $0.15 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $75.00 | $0.60 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
| 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 | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 better than Mistral: Mistral Small 4?
Mistral: Mistral Small 4 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 and Mistral: Mistral Small 4?
Input: $15.00 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens. Output: $75.00 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 and Mistral: Mistral Small 4 support?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 supports up to 200K tokens. Mistral: Mistral Small 4 supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 and Mistral: Mistral Small 4 support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4: yes. Mistral: Mistral Small 4: yes.