Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Mistral Nemo

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 56.9% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Nemo specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index34.626.4
Released2024-06-202024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked6010

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
BALROG32.6%17.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
DTBench67.8%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55118.68
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
MATH Level 556.9%10.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond55.3%29.9%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
BoolQ—82.5%
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Mistral Nemo: —

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

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Mistral Nemo: —

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

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451881
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 Nemo?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Nemo share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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