Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5
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 Medium 3.5 from Mistral. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.
Mistral Medium 3.5 holds more in a single conversation — 262K tokens against 200K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $1.00 / 1M tokens.
| Specification | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Model ID | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | mistral-medium-latest |
| Context window | 200K | 262K |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input price | $1.00 / 1M tokens | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $5.00 / 1M tokens | $7.50 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Input types | text, image, file | text, image |
| Output types | text | text |
| Plan | All paid plans | All paid plans |
Which should you use?
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 when…
- Cost matters: input runs at $1.00 / 1M tokens versus $1.50 / 1M tokens.
- You want longer single responses — up to 64K output tokens.
- You need file input, which the other model does not accept.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when…
- You need the larger context window — 262K against 200K.
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Try both on Clade
You do not have to choose. One Clade subscription gives you Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Medium 3.5, and every other model on the platform.