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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Side-by-side API pricing and Artificial Analysis performance for Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Mistral Small 3.1 24B (Mistral). Green cells mark the better value in each row.

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 3:54 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Mistral

Pricing
Input $/1M$1.00$0.351
Output $/1M$5.00$0.555
Blended $/1M (3:1)$2.00$0.402
RAG example (30K in / 2K out)$0.04$0.0116
Quality & speed
Intelligence Index29.6
Coding Index43.9
Agentic Index16.4
Output speed (tok/s)
Time to first token
Specs
Context window200K128K
Input modalitiestext, image, filetext, image

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B?

Mistral Small 3.1 24B has the lower blended API price at $0.402 per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output mix), versus $2.00 for the other model. Prices are live from OpenRouter and refresh about hourly.

Which is better for RAG workloads?

For a typical RAG request (30K input / 2K output tokens), Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs about $0.0116 per request versus $0.04. Also compare context windows: Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 200K and Mistral Small 3.1 24B offers 128K.

Which scores higher on Artificial Analysis benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (29.6 vs —). Check coding and agentic indices on this page for workload-specific tradeoffs.