Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Mistral Small 4

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

60.5

Rank #10 Confirmed

Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI

30.2

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 52.4 to 21.2.
  • Mistral Small 4 is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Small 4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Mistral Small 4 specifications
Claude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index60.530.2
Released2026-09-28—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K210K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.30
Results tracked161

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), Mistral Small 4: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1699—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Mistral Small 4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Mistral Small 4: 21.2

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
CritPt31.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), Mistral Small 4: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Mistral Small 4: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), Mistral Small 4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Mistral Small 4
Furniture Assembly75%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Mistral Small 4?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5.5 lists at $2 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Mistral Small 4 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 4 has 1.

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