Is Claude Opus 4.8 cheaper than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper, at $2.00 per 1M input tokens versus $15.00.

Which has the larger context window, Claude Opus 4.8 or Mistral Large 3?

Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window at 500K tokens.

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper on input ($2.00 vs $15.00 per 1M tokens), Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window (500K).

Spec	Claude Opus 4.8	Mistral Large 3
Provider	Anthropic	Mistral
Modality	Text + Vision	Text
Context window	500Kbest	256K
Input / 1M	$15.00	$2.00best
Output / 1M	$75.00	$6.00best
Released	Jan 2026	Feb 2026
Best for	Chat / Assistant, Code generation, Image / Vision	Chat / Assistant, Code generation

Is Claude Opus 4.8 cheaper than Mistral Large 3?: Mistral Large 3 is cheaper, at $2.00 per 1M input tokens versus $15.00.
Which has the larger context window, Claude Opus 4.8 or Mistral Large 3?: Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window at 500K tokens.