Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 is meaningfully stronger at coding (85 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (96 vs 84).
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓1M | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$3.00 | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $15.00 | 4000 |
| Release date | 2026-02 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | - |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.5% | - |
| GPQA | 79.7% | - |
| 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 Sonnet 4.6 if...
- →You have an existing integration pinned to Sonnet 4.6 and want stability
- →You need a proven mid-tier model with 1M context at $3/$15
- →You want predictable behavior without the new-tokenizer/thinking changes in Sonnet 5
- →You are cost-sensitive and don't need Sonnet 5's incremental gains
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)