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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Magistral Medium

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Anthropic · 1M context | Mistral · 128k context

Pricing Comparison

Metric	Claude Sonnet 4.6	Magistral Medium
Input / 1M tokens	$3	$2
Output / 1M tokens	$15	$5
Cached input / 1M	$0.3	—
Context window	1M	128k
Provider	Anthropic	Mistral

Cost Calculator

Input tokens

Output tokens

Requests/day

💰 Magistral Medium saves $1,800.00/month (57% cheaper)

AClaude Sonnet 4.6

Per request$0.0105

Daily$105.00

Monthly$3,150.00

Yearly$38,325.00

MMagistral MediumCHEAPER

Per request$0.004500

Daily$45.00

Monthly$1,350.00

Yearly$16,425.00

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Choose Claude Sonnet 4.6 when…

✓ Larger context window (1M vs 128k) — better for long documents
✓ Supports prompt caching — save up to 90% on repeated prompts
✓ Optimized for: Balanced performance

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Choose Magistral Medium when…

✓ Cheaper for RAG & document retrieval (lower input cost)
✓ 33% cheaper per input token
✓ Cheaper for generation-heavy workloads (lower output cost)
✓ Optimized for: Math & analysis

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