Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #278 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Mistral Small 3 leads 36.5 to 26.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 36.3% for Claude 3 Haiku and 47.3% for Mistral Small 3.
  • Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index25.931.2
Released2024-03-072025-01-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked3724

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%45.3%
LMArena Coding11991246
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%50.4%
WeirdML9.8%—
CadEval12%—
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
LMArena Hard Prompts11741233
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35127.07
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench50.1%—
LMCA8.8%—
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%6.7%
LMArena Math11881240
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
GPQA Diamond36.3%47.3%
Confabulations34.2%25.2%
LMArena Expert11481202
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English11781198
LMArena Chinese11551204
LMArena French11951203
LMArena German11741211
LMArena Japanese11021111
LMArena Korean11091188
LMArena Russian12041216
LMArena Spanish1166—

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following11731214

Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query11901246

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3 leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuMistral Small 3
LMArena Text11951234
LMArena Creative Writing11571195
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717707
LMArena Multi-Turn11901217

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.

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