Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4 benchmark

Name: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4 AI benchmark comparison
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This page compares Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Mistral: Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) using the latest snapshots we have as of Aug 17, 2026. Mistral: Mistral Small 4 wins on output price at $0.6/1M. Mistral: Mistral Small 4 has the larger context window (262k tokens). Every cell below is a dated snapshot from a named public source — we do not invent missing scores, and we do not run SWE-bench ourselves.

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Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic cheap/fast Claude SKU. Official Claude Platform list price $1/$5 per 1M tokens (Anthropic Haiku page).

Haiku 4.5Elo 1,438$5/1M out

Mistral

Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (mistralai/mistral-small-2603). Preview until a second source matches.

$0.6/1M out

Model Lineage & Multi-Tier Derivatives🇺🇸 US Frontier

Claude 4 Series Family (5 models)

Compare vs Base (Claude Opus 4.5)

Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic

Flagship Base

CoT Scaler

Elo

1568

Speed

62 tok/s

Price

$25.00 / 1M

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Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Opus 4.6

CoT Scaler

Elo

1574

Speed

64 tok/s

Price

$25.00 / 1M

+6 Elo0% cost

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Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic

Sonnet 4.5

Elo

1524

Speed

88 tok/s

Price

$15.00 / 1M

-44 Elo-40% cost1.4x speed

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Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

Opus 4.8

CoT Scaler

Elo

1598

Speed

66 tok/s

Price

$25.00 / 1M

+30 Elo0% cost1.1x speed

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Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic

Haiku 4.5

Elo

1438

Speed

175 tok/s

Price

$5.00 / 1M

-130 Elo-80% cost2.8x speed

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Tug-of-War Matchup Matrix

Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Claude Haiku 4.5 (7)vsMistral: Mistral Small 4 (3)

Claude Haiku 4.5: 7W (70%)Overall: Claude Haiku 4.5Mistral: Mistral Small 4: 3W (30%)

← Claude Haiku 4.5Mistral: Mistral Small 4 →

Claude Haiku 4.5 (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,438vs—

Coding Elo

1,446vs—

SWE-bench

58.2%vs—

LiveBench

62.4%vs—

GPQA Diamond

74%vs—

Claude Haiku 4.5: 5WMistral: Mistral Small 4: 0W

Claude Haiku 4.5 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

175 tok/svs—

Time to first token

95 msvs—

Claude Haiku 4.5: 2WMistral: Mistral Small 4: 0W

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$5/1Mvs$0.6/1M

Input price

$1/1Mvs$0.15/1M

Context window

200kvs262k

Claude Haiku 4.5: 0WMistral: Mistral Small 4: 3W

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Each spoke is a skill. Farther from the center is better (0–100th percentile). Tap any dot to inspect details.

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Percentile 0–100

Dimensional AdvantageClaude Haiku 4.5 4/6

Preference Elo

No shared data

Throughput Speed

No shared data

Token Price Efficiency

Mistral: Mistral Small 4

$4.40/1M cheaper

Full Benchmark Score Matrix

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Elo

High is better

1,438

EloHigh is better

—

Code Elo

High is better

1,446

Code EloHigh is better

—

LiveBench

High is better

62.4%

LiveBenchHigh is better

—

SWE-bench

High is better

58.2%

SWE-benchHigh is better

—

GPQA

High is better

74%

GPQAHigh is better

—

TTFT

Low is better

95 ms

TTFTLow is better

—

Speed

High is better

175 tok/s

SpeedHigh is better

—

In $

Low is better

$1.00 / 1M

In $Low is better

$0.15 / 1M+567%

Out $

Low is better

$5.00 / 1M

Out $Low is better

$0.60 / 1M+733%

Context

High is better

200k

ContextHigh is better

262k+31%

Interactive Simulator (USD)

Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).

Save up to 87% with Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Monthly Volume50M tokens/mo

Quick Presets:

Token Ratio (In vs Out)70% In / 30% Out

RAG / Search (10% out)Coding / Chat (50% out)

Claude Haiku 4.5$110.00 / mo

In: $35Out: $75

Mistral: Mistral Small 4$14.25 / mo

In: $5.25Out: $9

Estimated Cost Delta

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 is estimated to save $95.75/month ($1,149/year).

Based on 50M tokens (30% gen)

Key Selection Recommendations

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Mistral: Mistral Small 4:Pick Mistral: Mistral Small 4 when you are optimizing output cost.

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatMistral: Mistral Small 4

Lower output list price ($0.6/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGMistral: Mistral Small 4

Larger window (262k).

Screenshots / visionClaude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Lower output list price ($0.6/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Haiku 4.5	Claude Haiku 4.5 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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LIVE

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5

Elo 1,438

LiveBench62.4%

SWE-bench58.2%

Speed175 tok/s

Output cost$5/1M

Mistral

Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Elo n/a

LiveBench—

SWE-bench—

Speed—

Output cost$0.6/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral: Mistral Small 4?: We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.
Which is better at coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral: Mistral Small 4?: SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: Mistral: Mistral Small 4 output tokens are $0.6/1M versus $5/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.
Which is faster, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral: Mistral Small 4?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Mistral: Mistral Small 4 accepts 262k tokens versus 200k.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mistral Small 4 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4 benchmark

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Matchup Breakdown

Tug-of-War Matchup Matrix

Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Claude Haiku 4.5 (7)vsMistral: Mistral Small 4 (3)

Claude Haiku 4.5: 7W (70%)Overall: Claude Haiku 4.5Mistral: Mistral Small 4: 3W (30%)

← Claude Haiku 4.5Mistral: Mistral Small 4 →

Claude Haiku 4.5 (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,438vs—

Coding Elo

1,446vs—

SWE-bench

58.2%vs—

LiveBench

62.4%vs—

GPQA Diamond

74%vs—

Claude Haiku 4.5: 5WMistral: Mistral Small 4: 0W

Claude Haiku 4.5 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

175 tok/svs—

Time to first token

95 msvs—

Claude Haiku 4.5: 2WMistral: Mistral Small 4: 0W

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$5/1Mvs$0.6/1M

Input price

$1/1Mvs$0.15/1M

Context window

200kvs262k

Claude Haiku 4.5: 0WMistral: Mistral Small 4: 3W

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatMistral: Mistral Small 4

Lower output list price ($0.6/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGMistral: Mistral Small 4

Larger window (262k).

Screenshots / visionClaude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Lower output list price ($0.6/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Haiku 4.5	Claude Haiku 4.5 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral: Mistral Small 4?

We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.

Which is better at coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral: Mistral Small 4?

SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 output tokens are $0.6/1M versus $5/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.

Which is faster, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral: Mistral Small 4?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 accepts 262k tokens versus 200k.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral: Mistral Small 4 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

Claude 4 Series Family (5 models)

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Multi-Dimensional Capability Radar

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Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Full Benchmark Score Matrix

Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Key Selection Recommendations

Recommended Workload Routing

Related Editorial Dispatches & Benchmark Notes

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