Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Which is better for the money: Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) by Anthropic or Mistral Medium 3.5 by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)
Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning): 16.0% less intelligence, 112.7% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 24.7% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 16.9 | 14.2 | −16.0% Mistral Medium 3.5 is 16.0% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $594.08 | $1,263.80 | +112.7% Mistral Medium 3.5 is 2.1× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 23.70s | 17.85s | −24.7% Mistral Medium 3.5 is 24.7% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.50 / $7.50 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
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