Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Mistral Small
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small leads 31.0 to 16.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 46.8% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Claude 2 leads
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 70.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Mistral Small leads
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 5.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 46.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1341 |
Knowledge Mistral Small leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 47.5% |
| MMLU | 78.5% | 68.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1310 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Mistral Small?
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Mistral Small share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.