Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 24.9 to 9.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.7 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.1 (#320), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 15.7 (#303), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | 40.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.3 | 131.73 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.2 (#313), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#280), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | 49.1% |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.1 (#123), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#238), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | — |
| LMArena French | 1194 | — |
| LMArena German | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1108 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1165 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.5 (#242), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#232), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.8 (#286), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | 1255 |
| LMArena Text | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.