Claude Sonnet 5 vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Sonnet 5 is meaningfully stronger at coding (92 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (96 vs 85).
- •Claude Sonnet 5 is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Claude Sonnet 5 | 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 | 2026-06 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | ~85.2% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | - |
| SWE-bench Pro | 63.2% | - |
| OSWorld-Verified | 81.2% | - |
| 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 5 if...
- →You want frontier-adjacent agentic coding but need better cost-efficiency than Opus
- →You are running high-volume agent loops and want strong reasoning per dollar
- →You are already on Sonnet 4.6 and want a same-price capability upgrade
- →You need a 1M context window with fast latency
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)