Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 2.1 vs Mistral Large

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2.1 Anthropic

25.2

Rank #345 Reported

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.1 to 15.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 51.3% for Mistral Large.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 2.1Mistral Large
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index25.231.9
Released2023-11-212024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked751

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large leads

Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
SciCode—36.2%
WeirdML7.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
LMArena Coding—1277
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
ALE-Bench—264.7
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%

Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads

Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
DTBench51%65.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.27128.52
ForecastBench54.257.1
SimpleBench—22.5%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1257
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LMCA—16.7%
LiveBench—48.4%

Math Mistral Large leads

Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.9%8.5%
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
LMArena Math—1262
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Mistral Large leads

Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
GPQA Diamond33%51.3%
MMLU73.5%80%
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
LMArena Expert—1232

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English—1237
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1325
LMArena German—1254
LMArena Japanese—1188
LMArena Korean—1202
LMArena Russian—1257
LMArena Spanish—1268

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1249

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query—1261

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

BenchmarkClaude 2.1Mistral Large
LMArena Text—1266
LMArena Creative Writing—1243
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—985
WildBench—80.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1260
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2.1 better than Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 2.1 or Mistral Large better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mistral Large share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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