Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 36.4 to 9.6.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 39.6 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 210K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322), Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1461 |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216), Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 141.42 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1436 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1432 |
Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1431 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1443 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1406 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1414 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1414 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1372 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1423 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 25.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.