Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 and Mistral Small 3.1 24B side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, and Open Prompt.
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B live
Run the same image across every model that supports a task and compare their outputs side-by-side.
Extract and compare text from images across multiple models.
Upload an image
Drag and drop an image here, or click to browse
Claude Sonnet 4 is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
Models in this comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B Comparison Table
Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 16, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | May 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 128K |
| Parameters | 24B | |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.351 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $0.555 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Classification | ||
| Object Detection | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B: Overview
Claude 4 Sonnet, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is the mid-tier model in the Claude 4 family, designed to balance capability, cost, and speed. It is multimodal, accepting both text and images, and extends beyond prior versions with improved “computer use” support, allowing API-driven interaction with desktop-like interfaces. By default, it supports 200,000 tokens of context, but as of August 2025, it also offers a 1 million-token context window in public beta—making it one of the most context-capable models available for processing entire codebases or large document sets in a single request.
Sonnet 4 is significantly cheaper than the flagship Opus while still demonstrating strong reasoning, coding, and instruction-following ability with reduced hallucinations. Its extended context capabilities and lower latency make it well-suited for enterprise-scale knowledge management, software development, research assistants, and productivity automation where both cost efficiency and high reliability are essential.
Mistral Small 3.1 24B, released on March 17, 2025, is an open-weight multimodal model from Mistral AI, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. With around 24B parameters and a 128K token context window, it is available in both base and instruction-tuned (“Instruct”) variants. The model introduces vision support alongside text, enabling tasks like multimodal reasoning, captioning, and image-based Q&A.
It is multilingual, supporting many languages, and is optimized for fast responses, function calling, structured dialogue, and long-context reasoning. Despite its size, the model can be run locally in quantized formats, fitting on machines with ~32GB RAM, making it accessible to developers outside large cloud setups. However, the output length is smaller than the 128K input window, meaning long generations may require chaining. In addition, using full vision features or the maximum context window significantly increases compute costs, and performance on highly complex reasoning or enterprise-scale tasks still trails larger proprietary frontier models.