Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Mistral Large

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.1 to 17.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.9% for Claude 3 Haiku and 50.3% for Mistral Large.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Haiku and Mistral Large specifications
Claude 3 HaikuMistral Large
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index25.931.9
Released2024-03-072024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3751

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%30%
LMArena Coding11991277
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%38.3%
HumanEval+68.9%62.2%
MBPP+68.8%59.5%
SciCode—36.2%
WeirdML9.8%—
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
CadEval12%—
ALE-Bench—264.7

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
LMArena Hard Prompts11741257
DTBench50.1%65.1%
LMCA8.8%16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35128.52
ForecastBench53.257.1
SimpleBench—22.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LiveBench—48.4%
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%8.5%
LMArena Math11881262
MATH Level 514.9%50.3%
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
GPQA Diamond36.3%51.3%
Confabulations34.2%21.4%
LMArena Expert11481232
MMLU73.8%80%
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Mistral Large: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
LMArena Non-English11781237
LMArena Chinese11551240
LMArena French11951325
LMArena German11741254
LMArena Japanese11021188
LMArena Korean11091202
LMArena Russian12041257
LMArena Spanish11661268

Instruction Following Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following11731249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
LMArena Longer Query11901261

Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Large
LMArena Text11951266
LMArena Creative Writing11571243
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717985
LMArena Multi-Turn11901260
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
WildBench—80.1%
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Mistral Large better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Mistral Large share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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