Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium leads 28.1 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 81.6% for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 75.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1426 |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |
Math Mistral Medium leads
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 32.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 81.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1408 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1398 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1391 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1418 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Mistral Medium share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.