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Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 vs Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct

This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.

Anthropic

Model

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229

Image inputTool calling

Context window

200K

200,000 tokens · ~150K words

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Mistral

Model

Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct

Context window

32K

32,000 tokens · ~24K words

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Context window · side by side

Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229200K
Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct32K

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 has about 6.3× the context window of the other in this pair.

Token calculator →Memory savings →

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 has 525% more context capacity (200K vs 32K tokens). Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct is 80% cheaper on input.

Quick verdicts

Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.

  • Long document processing

    Use Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229. Its 200K context fits entire documents without chunking (vs 32K).

  • RAG / high-volume retrieval

    Use Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct. Input tokens are 80% cheaper — critical when sending large retrieved contexts.

  • Long output (reports, code files)

    Use Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct. Its 8K max output lets you generate complete artifacts in one request.

Full specs

Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.

SpecApac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229Mistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct
Context window200,000 tokens (200K)32,000 tokens (32K)
Max output tokens4,096 tokens (4K)8,191 tokens (8K)
Speed tierBalancedFast
VisionYesNo
Function callingYesNo
Extended thinkingNoNo
Prompt cachingYesNo
Batch APIYesNo
Release dateN/AN/A

Pricing matrix

Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.

ProviderApac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 inApac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 outMistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct inMistral Mixtral 8x7b Instruct out
Aws Bedrock$3.00/M$15.00/M$0.590/M$0.910/M

Frequently asked questions

Apac Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet 20240229 has a larger context window: 200K tokens vs 32K. For long documents, large codebases, or extended agent sessions, the larger context window reduces the need to chunk inputs or summarize history.

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