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Claude Sonnet 5vsMistral Medium 3.5

Claude Sonnet 5 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Mistral Medium 3.5 is 1.3x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Mistral Medium 3.5
1.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Mistral AI
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$2
Output /1M
$10
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
8 · 8 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 Sonnet 5Mistral Medium 3.5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 1
SWE-bench Verified85.2% 77.6% +7.6 ptClaude Sonnet 5
Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 7
GPQA Diamond90.5% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)43.2% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)29.3% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)65.6% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.4% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.7% epochnot reported
SimpleQA Verified33.7% epochnot reported
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 reports · 2
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 Sonnet 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 Sonnet 5Mistral Medium 3.5Edge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensClaude Sonnet 5
Max output128K tokens
Input price / 1M$2 $1.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Output price / 1M$10 $7.5 Mistral Medium 3.5
Cached input / 1M$0.2 $0.15 Mistral Medium 3.5
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$12$9Mistral Medium 3.5
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-06-302026-04-28
Cited benchmark scores83
Reliability

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