# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Mistral Large 3

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Mistral Large 3 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Mistral Large 3: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Mistral Large 3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Mistral Large 3 in General LLM at #20 against #103.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Mistral Large 3 in Reasoning at #10 against #104.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Mistral Large 3 in Coding › Web dev at #33 against #104.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Mistral Large 3 in Long context at #10 against #102.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Mistral Large 3 in Factuality at #21 against #76.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Mistral Large 3 is ranked #76 in Factuality (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).