Is Mistral Medium (latest) or Claude Sonnet 4.5 cheaper?

Mistral Medium (latest) is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $15.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Mistral Medium (latest) or Claude Sonnet 4.5?

Mistral Medium (latest) has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Mistral Medium (latest) vs Claude Sonnet 4.5

Mistral Medium (latest) is cheaper on output tokens, while Mistral Medium (latest) offers a larger context window. Choose Mistral Medium (latest) or Claude Sonnet 4.5 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Mistral Medium (latest)	Claude Sonnet 4.5
Provider	Merge Gateway	Merge Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.40	$3.00
Output / 1M tokens	$2.00	$15.00
Context window	262K	200K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Aug 2025	Sep 2025

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