Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Pixtral Large
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 32.9.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| 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), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Pixtral Large leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | 1089 |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | 988 |
| 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 Pixtral Large?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Pixtral Large share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.