Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
July 2024 Mistral Large 2 with 128K context.
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No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 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 Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024): $2.00 input / $6.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) at 131K tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) does not.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 has a notably higher capability index (18.7 point gap); only Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision input; only Claude Sonnet 5 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 Sonnet 5 and Mistral Large 2 (Jul 2024) for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.