Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral Small Creative: side-by-side summary

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Small Creative are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Claude Sonnet 4.5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced at $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Mistral Small Creative, from Mistral AI, has a 32,768-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Claude Sonnet 4.5: 1,000,000 tokens
• Mistral Small Creative: 32,768 tokens

Price

• Claude Sonnet 4.5: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output
• Mistral Small Creative: Pricing varies by provider

Provided by

• Claude Sonnet 4.5: Anthropic
• Mistral Small Creative: Mistral AI

• Claude Sonnet 4.5 model details, providers and pricing
• Mistral Small Creative model details, providers and pricing