Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Large 3
Side-by-side specs, pricing and capabilities. Both models run on Clade under one subscription, so you can switch between them in the same conversation.
Claude Haiku 4.5 comes from Anthropic and Mistral Large 3 from Mistral. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.
Mistral Large 3 holds more in a single conversation — 256K tokens against 200K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.
Mistral Large 3 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $0.50 / 1M tokens.
| Specification | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Model ID | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | mistral-large-2512 |
| Context window | 200K | 256K |
| Max output | 64K | 8K |
| Input price | $1.00 / 1M tokens | $0.50 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $5.00 / 1M tokens | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Input types | text, image, file | text, image, file, audio |
| Output types | text | text |
| Plan | Free | Free |
Which should you use?
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 when…
- You want longer single responses — up to 64K output tokens.
Pick Mistral Large 3 when…
- You need the larger context window — 256K against 200K.
- Cost matters: input runs at $0.50 / 1M tokens versus $1.00 / 1M tokens.
- You need audio input, which the other model does not accept.
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Try both on Clade
You do not have to choose. One Clade subscription gives you Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Large 3, and every other model on the platform.