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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Magistral Medium

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 3 categories and Magistral Medium in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 14.8.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.535.2
Released2024-02-292025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$5
Results tracked4622

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Coding12641319
SciCode—39.2%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts12451267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Math12731250
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert12231223
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English12581232
LMArena Chinese12481227
LMArena French12751267
LMArena German12581248
LMArena Japanese12041175
LMArena Korean11871125
LMArena Russian12801224
LMArena Spanish12461271

Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following12481254
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Magistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query12591295

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMagistral Medium
LMArena Text12621255
LMArena Creative Writing12351245
LMArena Multi-Turn12751275
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Magistral Medium?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Magistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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