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Claude Opus 5vsMistral Medium 3.5

Claude Opus 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Mistral Medium 3.5 is 3.3x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Mistral Medium 3.5
3.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 5
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Mistral AI
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · released 2026-07-24
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5
Output /1M
$25
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
9 · 6 core
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral AI · released 2026-04-28
textvision
Context
256K
Max out
Input /1M
$1.5
Output /1M
$7.5
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
3 · 2 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Mistral Medium 3.5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only Claude Opus 5 reports · 9
GPQA Diamond93.9% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)56.6% not reported
CursorBench 3.2.070% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)73.2% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)85.6% epochnot reported
GDPval-AA v21824 not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.9% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified59.9% epochnot reported
Terminal-Bench Science 0.129% not reported
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 reports · 3
SWE-bench Verifiednot reported77.6%
LMArena Elonot reported1420.6
Tau3 Telecomnot reported91.4
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 5 minus Mistral Medium 3.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Opus 5Mistral Medium 3.5Edge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensClaude Opus 5
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$5 $1.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Output price / 1M$25 $7.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Cached input / 1M$0.5 $0.15 Mistral Medium 3.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30$9Mistral Medium 3.5
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-07-242026-04-28
Cited benchmark scores93
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