Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Mistral Small

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Small in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 5.8% for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral Small specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index39.533.4
Released2025-02-242024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked5839

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LiveBench Coding74.5%36.2%
LMArena Coding13611362
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
SciCode—26.5%
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Mistral Small leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331335
LiveBench Data Analysis74%53.7%
LiveBench76.1%44%
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
DTBench—70.9%
LMCA—20.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%5.8%
LiveBench Math79%39.9%
LMArena Math13371341
MATH Level 591.2%46.8%
Omni-MATH33%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
GPQA Diamond79.7%47.5%
LMArena Expert13211291
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
MMLU—68.7%

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LMArena Vision11691142
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LMArena Non-English12961315
LMArena Chinese12991340
LMArena French13031337
LMArena German13011340
LMArena Japanese12671275
LMArena Korean12491259
LMArena Russian13111324
LMArena Spanish12981346

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%63.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13521310
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query13731327
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small
LMArena Text13141338
LMArena Creative Writing13321305
LMArena Multi-Turn13391344
LiveBench Language59.9%30.5%
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Mistral Small?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Mistral Small better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral Small share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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