Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Mistral Large 2407
Head-to-head API pricing and cost comparison between Anthropic’s Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Mistral’s Mistral Large 2407. Prices auto-refresh daily from OpenRouter.
Mistral Large 2407 is 33% cheaper for input tokens; Mistral Large 2407 also wins on output tokens.
Side-by-side comparison
| Spec | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Mistral Large 2407 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price (per 1M) | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Cached input (per 1M) | $0.30 | $0.20 |
| Output price (per 1M) | $15.00 | $6.00 |
| Batch input (per 1M) | $1.50 | — |
| Batch output (per 1M) | $7.50 | — |
| Reasoning price (per 1M) | — | — |
| Context window | 1000K | 131K |
| 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 Sonnet 4.6 | Mistral Large 2407 | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
1K req/day 500in / 200out tokens | $135.00 | $66.00 | $69.00 Mistral Large 2407 wins |
10K req/day 1500in / 500out tokens | $3,600 | $1,800 | $1,800 Mistral Large 2407 wins |
100K req/day 3000in / 800out tokens | $63,000 | $32,400 | $30,600 Mistral Large 2407 wins |
1M req/day 8000in / 2000out tokens | $1,620,000 | $840,000 | $780,000 Mistral Large 2407 wins |
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Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Mistral Large 2407?
For input tokens, Mistral Large 2407 is roughly 33% cheaper at $2.00/1M vs $3.00/1M. For output tokens, Mistral Large 2407 wins at $6.00/1M. 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 Sonnet 4.6 has a context window of 1000K tokens. Mistral Large 2407 offers 131K 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 Sonnet 4.6 or Mistral Large 2407?
Choose Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you’re already on the Anthropic stack, want broad ecosystem support, or prefer its feature set. Choose Mistral Large 2407 for Mistral’s ecosystem, 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: Apr 21, 2026.