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Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Magistral Medium

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 2 categories and Magistral Medium in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 27.4% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 39.2% for Magistral Medium.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.235.2
Released2024-10-222025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$5
Results tracked4922

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
SciCode27.4%39.2%
LMArena Coding12861319
Aider Polyglot28%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
CritPt0%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts12511267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Math12441250
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert12081223
GPQA Diamond38.1%—
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English12381232
LMArena Chinese12291227
LMArena French12641267
LMArena German12371248
LMArena Japanese11751175
LMArena Korean11731125
LMArena Russian12531224
LMArena Spanish12611271

Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following12411254
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—

Long Context Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query12611295

Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuMagistral Medium
LMArena Text12551255
LMArena Creative Writing12331245
LMArena Multi-Turn12651275
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Magistral Medium?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Magistral Medium share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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