Model comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 API pricing: input/output token costs, cache pricing, context windows, workload estimates, and routing fit.
Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic · claude-haiku-4-5
- Input
- $1
- Output
- $5
- Context
- 200K
Mistral Medium 3.5
mistral · mistral/mistral-medium-3-5
- Input
- $1.5
- Output
- $7.5
- Context
- 262.1K
Quick take
Claude Haiku 4.5 has the lower input price at $1 per 1M input tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper for the example blended workload below. Mistral Medium 3.5 has the larger context window at 262.1K tokens.
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 if...
- Claude Haiku 4.5 is the better default for cost-sensitive traffic and repeated high-volume calls.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 is stronger when the same large prompt or document is reused because it supports prompt caching.
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if...
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is safer for long documents, repository analysis, and RAG prompts because it has the larger context window.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 gives more room for long generated answers, reports, or code output.
Example workload cost
Estimates use input tokens plus 20% output tokens. They exclude provider discounts, cache hits, and tool/search surcharges.
| Workload | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M input + 200K output | $2.00 | $3.00 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| 10M input + 2M output | $20.00 | $30.00 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| 100M input + 20M output | $200.00 | $300.00 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
Context, output, and capability fit
Mistral Medium 3.5 provides the larger context window. Check max output separately when the task needs long reports, code generation, or full-document rewrites.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 max output
- 64K
- Mistral Medium 3.5 max output
- 262.1K
- Claude Haiku 4.5 features
- prompt caching, function calling, vision
- Mistral Medium 3.5 features
- function calling, vision
Risk notes for Claude Haiku 4.5
- No major capability risk is flagged in this snapshot, but provider pages should still be verified before production routing.
Risk notes for Mistral Medium 3.5
- No prompt caching in this snapshot: repeated long-context calls may be more expensive.
Routing tags
fastbudgetagentsenterprise-ragcache-friendlyragfrontiercodingreasoningmultimodalopen-weightenterpriselocal-open