Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Mistral 7B
Claude 2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 24.9 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral 7B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 2.1 leads 15.5 to 7.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 22.9 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216), Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 111.97 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309), Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287), Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 15.2% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 62.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1036 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Mistral 7B?
Claude 2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 24.9 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (25.8 vs 25.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mistral 7B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.