Price comparison · checked October 12, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Mistral Large pricing

For a typical support chatbot (60,000 conversations a month), Mistral Large costs $72.00 a month and Claude Opus 5.5 costs $720. That makes Mistral Large 10× cheaper for this workload.

Claude Opus 5.5Mistral Large
ProviderAnthropicMistral
Input / 1M$4.00$0.50
Cached input / 1M$0.20–
Output / 1M$20.00$1.50
Context window1M–
Notes–Version not stated on pricing page

Monthly cost by workload

WorkloadClaude Opus 5.5Mistral LargeDifference
Support chatbot
60,000 req · 1,500 in / 300 out
$720$72.00Mistral Large 10× cheaper
Document summaries
20,000 req · 6,000 in / 400 out
$640$72.00Mistral Large 8.9× cheaper
Coding assistant
30,000 req · 4,000 in / 800 out
$960$96.00Mistral Large 10× cheaper
RAG search
100,000 req · 2,500 in / 250 out
$1,500$162Mistral Large 9.2× cheaper

Standard rates, no caching or batch discounts. Sources: mistral.ai · platform.claude.com

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1,000 tokens is about 750 English words. Input includes your system prompt, chat history and any retrieved documents.

Mistral Large
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$72.00 /mo
$720 /mo

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