Claude Opus 4.8 vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Opus 4.8 is meaningfully stronger at coding (96 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (96 vs 70).
- •Claude Opus 4.8 is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓1M | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$5.00 | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | 4000 |
| Release date | 2026-05 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 88.6% | - |
| SWE-bench Pro | 69.2% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 74.6% | - |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.6% | - |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 61.4 | - |
| 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 Opus 4.8 if...
- →You need top-tier autonomous coding and multi-step agentic reliability
- →You run long-horizon agent traces that previously derailed after compaction
- →You want enterprise-grade reasoning with 1M context and 128k output
- →You need throughput and are willing to pay fast-mode premium for 2.5x speed
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)