Anthropic's most capable Opus yet, built for long-horizon autonomous agents and frontier coding.
July 2024 Mistral Large 2 with 128K context.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher (89.2 vs 61.4). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024): $2.00 input / $6.00 output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.8 supports 1M tokens vs Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) at 131K tokens.
Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision/image input, but Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) does not.
Key differences: Claude Opus 4.8 has a notably higher capability index (27.8 point gap); Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) is significantly cheaper; only Claude Opus 4.8 supports vision input; only Claude Opus 4.8 offers extended reasoning mode. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Opus 4.8 and Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.