Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Mistral 7B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral 7B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index39.523.0
Released2025-02-242023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked5837

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Coding13611082
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
CadEval54%—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331067
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16112.21
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
DTBench—42.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench61.8—
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench76.1%—
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%0.3%
LMArena Math13371085
MATH Level 591.2%3.7%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond79.7%15.2%
LMArena Expert13211036
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Mistral 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English12961012
LMArena Chinese12991009
LMArena French13031037
LMArena German1301987
LMArena Japanese1267878
LMArena Russian13111018
LMArena Spanish12981026
LMArena Korean1249—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following13521060
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query13731060
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Text13141090
LMArena Creative Writing13321068
LMArena Multi-Turn13391062
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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