Mistral Small 3 is 461.5× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Claude Fable 5 has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 32,768 tokens, 30.5×). Mistral Small 3 is open-weights; the other is not.
Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Small 3
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · anthropic__claude-fable-5
Mistral Small 3open
Mistral · mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501
Identity
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Slug | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 |
Quality
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | — | — |
Cost
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $0.05 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $1.00 | — |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $50.00 | $0.08 |
Context
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 1,000,000 | 32,768 |
| Max output tokens | 128,000 | 16,384 |
Modalities
| Field | anthropic__claude-fable-5 | mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | text, image, file | text |
| Output | text | text |