Anthropic Claude API vs Mistral La Plateforme pricing
Both are in llm apis. Anthropic Claude API is billed per token; Mistral La Plateforme is billed per token. Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
Anthropic Claude APINo free tier
- Free tier
- Trial credits on signup (no ongoing API free tier)
- Billed
- Per token
- Best for
- Frontier reasoning and agentic coding
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Mistral La PlateformeFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Free Experiment tier, rate-limited (~1B tokens/mo cap), all models
- Billed
- Per token
- Best for
- Open-weight European LLMs
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Anthropic Claude API plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5 / $25 per 1M tokens | Flagship model, input/output; 1M-token context with no long-context surcharge. Fast Mode available at $10/$50. |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3 / $15 per 1M tokens | Best speed/intelligence balance, input/output; 1M-token context. |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 / $5 per 1M tokens | Fastest, most cost-effective tier, input/output; 200K context. |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 / $50 per 1M tokens | Most capable widely released model for the most demanding reasoning/agentic work; 1M context. |
| Batch API | 50% off standard rates | Asynchronous processing; up to 100K requests or 256MB per batch, most complete within 1 hour. |
| Prompt caching | ~0.1x read / 1.25x write (5m) | Cached input served at ~10% of base price; up to ~90% savings on repeated prefixes. |
- Rate-limit and quota tiers are opaque, limits are not always clearly stated, generating developer frustration
- Premium pricing at the Opus/Fable tier is high versus commodity LLM APIs
- Some features are gated by model tier or unavailable on certain third-party platforms (e.g. no Batches/web search on Bedrock)
Source: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
Mistral La Plateforme plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-latest) | $0.50 / $1.50 per 1M tokens | Flagship general model, input/output |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-latest) | $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M tokens | Highest-tier multimodal model |
| Mistral Small 4 (mistral-small-latest) | $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens | Efficient mid-size model |
| Ministral 3 - 3B (ministral-3b-latest) | $0.10 / $0.10 per 1M tokens | Cheapest edge/small model |
| Codestral (codestral-latest) | $0.30 / $0.90 per 1M tokens | Code-completion model |
| Free Experiment tier + Batch API | $0 free tier; 50% off batch | ~1B tokens/month rate-limited eval tier; 50% batch discount on all production rates (24h SLA) |
Source: https://mistral.ai/pricing/