Model Comparison

Comprehensive side-by-side analysis of model capabilities and performance

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 78.0% across 10 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Tau2 Telecom (98.0%), MMMLU (89.1%), AIME 2025 (87.0%). It supports a 264K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.

Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct is a language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 63.3% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MT-Bench (83.0%), Winogrande (75.3%), ARC-C (71.9%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.

Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral AI

2024-10-16

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic

2025-09-29

11 months newer

Pricing Comparison

Cost per million tokens (USD)

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

$17.80 cheaper
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.10

Performance Metrics

Context window and performance specifications

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Larger context
Max Context:264.0K
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Max Context:256.0K
Parameters:8.0B

Average performance across 21 common benchmarks

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

+4.0%
Average Score:37.1%
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Average Score:33.2%

Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

math
+32.5%
87.0%
general
+13.2%
78.0%
code
50.0%
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

math
54.5%
general
64.7%
code
+1.0%
51.0%
Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5

2025-01-31

More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks

Provider Availability & Performance

Available providers and their performance metrics

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

2 providers

Anthropic

Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms

ZeroEval

Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

1 providers

Mistral AI

Throughput: 0.1 tok/s
Latency: 0.18ms
Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

+4.0%
Avg Score:37.1%
Providers:2
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Avg Score:33.2%
Providers:1