Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 38.7 to 14.7.
- Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1448 |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| 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 Large 3: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1414 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1421 |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | 1221 |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1440 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1403 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1386 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | 1412 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1429 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?
Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral Large 3 share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.