Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Ministral 3B
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.8 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 14.4% for Ministral 3B.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 26.2 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 118.1 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | 14.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 25.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | — |
| LMArena French | 1303 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Ministral 3B?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Ministral 3B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.