Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mistral Small Comparison

Comparing Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral Small across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral Small don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Mistral Small costs less

For input processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.80/1M tokens) is 4.0x more expensive than Mistral Small ($0.20/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($4.00/1M tokens) is 6.7x more expensive than Mistral Small ($0.60/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3.5 Haiku is more expensive than Mistral Small.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input tokens$0.80

Output tokens$4.00

Best providerAWS Bedrock

Mistral Small

Input tokens$0.20

Output tokens$0.60

Best providerMistral

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3.5 Haiku accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Mistral Small's 32,768 tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Mistral Small is limited to 32,768 tokens.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Mistral Small

Input32,768 tokens

Output32,768 tokens

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License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Mistral Small uses Mistral Research License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Mistral Small

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Mistral Small was released on 2024-09-17.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is 1 month newer than Mistral Small.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.4 years ago

1mo newer

Mistral Small

Sep 17, 2024

1.5 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Claude 3.5 Haiku is available from Bedrock, Google, Anthropic. Mistral Small is available from Mistral AI. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.