Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is meaningfully stronger at coding (78 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (90 vs 74).
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓200K | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$1.00 | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | 4000 |
| Release date | 2025-10 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | - |
| GPQA | 64.6% | - |
| MMLU Pro | 80.0% | - |
| OlmOCRBench | - | 85.20 |
| OmniDocBench | - | 93.07 |
| Human preference (head-to-head) | - | 72% win rate |
| Human evaluation (blind) | - | 72% |
| Human Evaluation (Blind Test) | - | 72% win rate |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 if...
- →You need high throughput and low latency at minimal cost
- →You are fanning out many parallel sub-agents or worker calls
- →You want solid coding/computer-use quality without Opus/Sonnet pricing
- →Your task fits comfortably within a 200K context window
Choose Mistral OCR 4 if...
- →You need to convert PDFs, scans, or office docs into structured text/Markdown
- →You require high-accuracy multilingual document parsing at low cost
- →You need tables, equations, and layout preserved with confidence scores
- →You must keep documents in-house (self-hosted deployment)