Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mistral Large (latest)
Mistral Large (latest) is cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 by about 93% on a blended (75% input / 25% output) basis. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 charges $5.000000 / $25.000000 per 1M input/output tokens; Mistral Large (latest) charges $0.500000 / $1.500000.
| Field | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 | Mistral Large (latest) |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/Mtok | $5.000000 | $0.500000 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.000000 | $1.500000 |
| Cache read $/Mtok | $0.500000 | $0.050000 |
| Cache write $/Mtok | $6.250000 | – |
| Input $/Mchar | n/a | 0.177809 |
| Output $/Mchar | n/a | 0.533428 |
| Context window | 200000 | 262144 |
| Tokenizer | claude | mistral |
Price history
Same workload, monthly cost
Illustrative monthly cost at 10M tokens/month, split per workload preset. Not a substitute for the calculator, which uses your own volume, cache and batch assumptions.
| Workload | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 | Mistral Large (latest) |
|---|---|---|
| Coding agent | $60.00 | $5.50 |
| RAG chat | $80.00 | $6.50 |
| Summarisation (batch) | $70.00 | $6.00 |
| Classification | $54.00 | $5.20 |
| Chat assistant | $130.00 | $9.00 |
| Content generation | $210.00 | $13.00 |
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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mistral Large (latest): $5.000000/$25.000000 vs $0.500000/$1.500000 per 1M tokens, as of 2026-10-04 (Token Barometer, https://tokenbarometer.com/compare/anthropic_claude-opus-4-5-vs-mistral_mistral-large-2411).
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