Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 38.7 to 9.3.
- Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1448 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Reasoning Claude 2 leads
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1429 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |
Math Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1414 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1440 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1403 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1386 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1429 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Mistral Large 3 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.