AI model comparison
Compare pricing, context limits, supported inputs and deployment options to choose a model for your workflow.
These models are relevant to agents that inspect code, interpret supplied documents and call tools. Mistral Large 4 offers an open-weight route and a hosted public preview. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a hosted Claude model. Select the operational route before comparing their answers.
A repository agent with a shell and executable tests has different evidence from a chat model given a short pasted snippet. Use the same repository revision, tools and task boundaries. When one client supplies extra retrieval or repair logic, record that advantage as an integration difference.
Use real diagrams, screenshots and conflicting document versions. Require answers to distinguish visible evidence from inference. Both a confident guess and a misread number should count as failures even when the response is well written.
Record Large 4’s preview status and promotional price and its eligibility conditions alongside Claude’s actual host, account limits and processing mode. A weight licence and a managed API contract describe different deployment choices.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is an Anthropic language model that accepts text and images and returns text.
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Mistral AI
Mistral Large 4 is an open-weight multimodal model released in public preview on the publisher’s announced release, for general reasoning, coding and agent applications.
Pricing conditions: The current model page lists promotional USD rates of $0.68/M input, $0.07/M cached input and $2.09/M output, alongside regular rates of $1.36, $0.14 and $4.18. The model is in public preview; confirm the current promotion and deployment terms.
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At a glance
Compare the available figures below, then try both models on the work you need to do.
Context capacity
Higher listed limit
Claude Sonnet 5.5:1M
Mistral Large 4:1M
Same value
Specifications
| Specification | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Listed pricing route | Anthropic | Mistral API |
| Model family | Claude 5 | — |
| Accepted inputs | text, image | text, image |
| Produced outputs | text | text |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | From $0.68 |
| Output price / 1M | $10.00 | From $2.09 |
| Reasoning mode | Documented | Documented |
| Tool calling | Documented | Documented |
| Image input | Documented | Documented |
| Audio input | Not documented | Not documented |
| Structured output | Documented | Documented |
| License | Provider terms | Publisher terms |
Workload guidance
Shortlist Large 4 if running or adapting a checkpoint is part of the requirement. Shortlist Sonnet if you want to evaluate a managed Claude agent workflow. Neither choice establishes which model solves your repository issues more reliably.
Run ordinary tasks as well as difficult ones. Track completed work, recovery after a failed tool action and review time. Compare total attempts and accepted-result cost. Keep one failure example from each candidate in the evaluation record so the final choice remains understandable after a model update.
This is a documentation-based selection guide, not an independent benchmark. Publisher source 1 · Publisher source 2.
Explore each model’s features, API requirements and licence terms in the sources below.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
Profile updated Oct 13, 2026
Pricing record dated Oct 9, 2026 · Anthropic
Models.dev specification record ↗Documentation and references ↗Mistral Large 4
Mistral AI
Profile updated Oct 13, 2026
Pricing record dated Oct 13, 2026 · Mistral API
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