Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Anthropic against Mistral AI, costed on the same three workloads. Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper on all three workloads.
Monthly bill, side by side
| Workload | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot 2,500 six-turn conversations a day |
$4,028 | $6,041 | $2,014 (1.5×) |
| Document summariser 1,000 single-shot summaries a day |
$486 | $729 | $243 (1.5×) |
| Coding agent 200 twelve-turn sessions a day |
$2,808 | $4,212 | $1,404 (+50%) |
No prompt caching and no batch discount on either side, so the comparison is like for like. Both figures assume 30 days a month.
The rate cards
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input, per 1M tokens | $1 | $1.5 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $5 | $7.5 |
| Cached input | $0.1 | not published |
| Context window | 200K | 262K |
| Maximum output | 64K | 262K |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Vision | yes | yes |
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Full detail: Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing · Mistral Medium 3.5 pricing