Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Mistral 7B

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMistral 7B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.523.0
Released2024-02-292023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked4637

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%19.5%
LMArena Coding12641082
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%27.3%
HumanEval+77.4%36%
MBPP+73.3%42.1%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles5%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451067
DTBench61.6%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91112.21
WinoGrande88.5%75.3%
SimpleBench23.5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench58.4—
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench49.2%—
PIQA—83%

Math Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%0.3%
LMArena Math12731085
MATH Level 537.5%3.7%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond47.2%15.2%
LMArena Expert12231036
MMLU84.6%62.5%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English12581012
LMArena Chinese12481009
LMArena French12751037
LMArena German1258987
LMArena Japanese1204878
LMArena Russian12801018
LMArena Spanish12461026
LMArena Korean1187—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following12481060
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query12591060

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral 7B
LMArena Text12621090
LMArena Creative Writing12351068
LMArena Multi-Turn12751062
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Mistral 7B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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