Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Magistral Medium
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.2 to 39.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 28.6% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 6.1% for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 34.8 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1319 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | 6.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1267 |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1336 | 1249 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1222 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1225 |
| LMArena French | 1302 | 1268 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1268 | 1176 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1299 | 1269 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1254 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1295 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1275 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Magistral Medium?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 38.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Magistral Medium share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.