Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Mistral Medium 3.1

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral AI

31.5

Rank #260 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 22.5 to 10.1.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Medium 3.1 specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index34.431.5
Released2024-06-20—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—131K
Max output—105K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked603

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1343—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
SimpleBench41.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—6.5%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
Thematic Generalization—20.3%
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1306—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1264—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1271—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1305—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Mistral Medium 3.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Medium 3.1
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14511476
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.

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