Price comparison · checked October 12, 2026

Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Large pricing

For a typical support chatbot (60,000 conversations a month), Mistral Large costs $72.00 a month and Claude Fable 5.1 costs $1,800. That makes Mistral Large 25× cheaper for this workload.

Claude Fable 5.1Mistral Large
ProviderAnthropicMistral
Input / 1M$10.00$0.50
Cached input / 1M$0.25–
Output / 1M$50.00$1.50
Context window1M–
Notes–Version not stated on pricing page

Monthly cost by workload

WorkloadClaude Fable 5.1Mistral LargeDifference
Support chatbot
60,000 req · 1,500 in / 300 out
$1,800$72.00Mistral Large 25× cheaper
Document summaries
20,000 req · 6,000 in / 400 out
$1,600$72.00Mistral Large 22× cheaper
Coding assistant
30,000 req · 4,000 in / 800 out
$2,400$96.00Mistral Large 25× cheaper
RAG search
100,000 req · 2,500 in / 250 out
$3,750$162Mistral Large 23× 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
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