Is Mistral: Codestral 2508 or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 cheaper?

Mistral: Codestral 2508 is cheaper on output tokens ($0.90 vs $25.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Mistral: Codestral 2508 or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5?

Mistral: Codestral 2508 has the larger context window (256K tokens).

Mistral: Codestral 2508 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

Mistral: Codestral 2508 is cheaper on output tokens, while Mistral: Codestral 2508 offers a larger context window. Choose Mistral: Codestral 2508 or Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Mistral: Codestral 2508	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
Provider	Kilo Gateway	Kilo Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.30	$5.00
Output / 1M tokens	$0.90	$25.00
Context window	256K	200K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Aug 2025	Nov 2025

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