Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Mistral Small 3.1

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 3.9% for Mistral Small 3.1.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral Small 3.1 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index39.531.7
Released2025-02-242025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked5828

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding13611309
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Mistral Small 3.1: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13331278
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16127.48
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%3.9%
Omni-MATH33%24.8%
LMArena Math13371262
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
GPQA Diamond79.7%41.9%
MMLU-Pro78.4%61%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%39.2%
LMArena Expert13211257
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
Confabulations14.7%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision11691136
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English12961255
LMArena Chinese12991253
LMArena French13031273
LMArena German13011266
LMArena Japanese12671208
LMArena Korean12491206
LMArena Russian13111263
LMArena Spanish12981283

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
IFEval83.4%75%
LMArena Instruction Following13521264
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query13731299
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text13141277
LMArena Creative Writing13321253
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412761
WildBench81.4%78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn13391270
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 38.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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