Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Mistral Small 3.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 45.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 131.74 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 30.3% |
| 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 Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 49.1% |
| 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), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | 1255 |
| LMArena Text | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.