Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct cheaper?

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.56 vs $10.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Claude Sonnet 5 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Claude Sonnet 5 offers a larger context window. Choose Claude Sonnet 5 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Claude Sonnet 5	Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Provider	Cloudflare AI Gateway	Cloudflare AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$2.00	$0.35
Output / 1M tokens	$10.00	$0.56
Context window	1M	128K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Jun 2026	Apr 2025

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