Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mistral
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Claude 3.5 Haiku leads 62.9 to 52.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60.5% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 27.7% for Mistral.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 49 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1162 |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1149 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Mistral leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | 1180 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 79.2% | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1152 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1153 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1158 |
| WildBench | 76% | 66% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1147 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Mistral?
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Mistral better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.