Is Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct or Claude Opus 4.5 cheaper?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.25 vs $30.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct or Claude Opus 4.5?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct has the larger context window (256K tokens).

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct vs Claude Opus 4.5

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct or Claude Opus 4.5 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct	Claude Opus 4.5
Provider	Venice AI	Venice AI
Input / 1M tokens	$0.09	$6.00
Output / 1M tokens	$0.25	$30.00
Context window	256K	198K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Jan 2026	Dec 2025

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