Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Codestral
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Codestral in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3.5 Haiku leads 32.9 to 27.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 28% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 11.1% for Codestral.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | 11.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | 41.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | 52.5% |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 73.8% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Codestral leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | — |
| LMArena French | 1264 | — |
| LMArena German | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Codestral?
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Codestral better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Codestral share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.