Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Magistral Small
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 18.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 30% for Magistral Small.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.9 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258), Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 27.4% | 35.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286), Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0.3% |
| DTBench | 56.7% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Magistral Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294), Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 30% |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | 56.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | — |
| LMArena French | 1262 | — |
| LMArena German | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1172 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Magistral Small?
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 32.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Magistral Small share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.