Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Mistral Small 3.2

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.7 to 26.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 79.7% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 49.1% for Mistral Small 3.2.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index39.430.8
Released2025-02-242025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked586

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16131.73
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%30.3%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1336—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond79.7%49.1%
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1302—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1268—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1299—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetMistral Small 3.2
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121255
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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