Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) vs Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512
Head-to-head API pricing and cost comparison between Anthropic’s Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) and Mistral’s Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512. Prices auto-refresh daily from OpenRouter.
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 is 98% cheaper for input tokens; Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 also wins on output tokens.
Side-by-side comparison
| Spec | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) | Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price (per 1M) | $30.00 | $0.50 |
| Cached input (per 1M) | $3.00 | $0.05 |
| Output price (per 1M) | $150.00 | $1.50 |
| Batch input (per 1M) | $15.00 | — |
| Batch output (per 1M) | $75.00 | — |
| Reasoning price (per 1M) | — | — |
| Context window | 1000K | 262K |
| Vision support | Yes | Yes |
| 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 Opus 4.7 (Fast) | Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
1K req/day 500in / 200out tokens | $1,350 | $16.50 | $1,334 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins |
10K req/day 1500in / 500out tokens | $36,000 | $450.00 | $35,550 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins |
100K req/day 3000in / 800out tokens | $630,000 | $8,100 | $621,900 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins |
1M req/day 8000in / 2000out tokens | $16,200,000 | $210,000 | $15,990,000 Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins |
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Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) or Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512?
For input tokens, Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 is roughly 98% cheaper at $0.50/1M vs $30.00/1M. For output tokens, Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 wins at $1.50/1M. 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 Opus 4.7 (Fast) has a context window of 1000K tokens. Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 offers 262K 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 Opus 4.7 (Fast) or Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512?
Choose Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) if you’re already on the Anthropic stack, want broad ecosystem support, or prefer its feature set. Choose Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 for Mistral’s ecosystem, native vision input, or its cheaper input tokens. 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: May 13, 2026.