Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Codestral
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Codestral in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 39.0 to 27.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 51.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 11.1% for Codestral.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | 11.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | 41.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | 52.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | 73.8% |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | 61.9% |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | — |
| LMArena French | 1305 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Codestral?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Codestral better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Codestral share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.