Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Large
Head-to-head API pricing and cost comparison between Anthropic’s Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral’s Mistral Large. Prices auto-refresh daily from OpenRouter.
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is 50% cheaper for input tokens; Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 also wins on output tokens.
Side-by-side comparison
| Spec | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Input price (per 1M) | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Cached input (per 1M) | $0.10 | $0.20 |
| Output price (per 1M) | $5.00 | $6.00 |
| Batch input (per 1M) | $0.50 | — |
| Batch output (per 1M) | $2.50 | — |
| Reasoning price (per 1M) | — | — |
| Context window | 200K | 128K |
| Vision support | Yes | No |
| Caching support | Yes | Yes |
| Batch API | Yes | No |
| Reasoning capability | No | No |
Monthly cost at volume
Estimated monthly API spend at common production traffic levels (input/output tokens per request shown).
| Volume | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Large | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
1K req/day 500in / 200out tokens | $45.00 | $66.00 | $21.00 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins |
10K req/day 1500in / 500out tokens | $1,200 | $1,800 | $600.00 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins |
100K req/day 3000in / 800out tokens | $21,000 | $32,400 | $11,400 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins |
1M req/day 8000in / 2000out tokens | $540,000 | $840,000 | $300,000 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins |
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Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral Large?
For input tokens, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is roughly 50% cheaper at $1.00/1M vs $2.00/1M. For output tokens, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins at $5.00/1M. Real-world cost depends on your input/output ratio — use the calculator to model your actual workload.
What’s the context window difference?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 has a context window of 200K tokens. Mistral Large offers 128K tokens. Larger context windows are valuable for long documents, RAG pipelines, and multi-turn conversations — but they come with higher input-token bills if you fill them every request.
Should I use Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral Large?
Choose Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 if you’re already on the Anthropic stack, want broad ecosystem support, or prefer its lower input price. Choose Mistral Large for Mistral’s ecosystem, or its differentiated capabilities. Run a small benchmark on your own prompts before committing — price is only one axis.
How are these prices kept current?
Prices are pulled directly from OpenRouter’s public models API once every 24 hours via a Convex cron job, then normalized to per-1M-token figures. Last refresh: Apr 21, 2026.