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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI

43.1

Rank #99 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Large 4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 4 leads 40.4 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 12.6% for Claude 3 Opus and 20% for Mistral Large 4.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.543.1
Released2024-02-292026-10-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.68
Output $ / M tokens—$2.09
Results tracked4615

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Mistral Large 4: 48.6 (#57)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Coding12641475
LMArena WebDev—1541
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), Mistral Large 4: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Mistral Large 4: 22.5 (#192)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Hard Prompts12451444
SimpleBench23.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—27.4%
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 Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Mistral Large 4: 40.4 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Math12731488
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Mistral Large 4: 36.6 (#166)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
SimpleQA Verified12.6%20%
LMArena Expert12231447
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Mistral Large 4: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Mistral Large 4: 52.6 (#82)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Non-English12581415
LMArena Chinese12481491
LMArena Russian12801414
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Mistral Large 4: 75.0 (#76)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Instruction Following12481424
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Mistral Large 4: 43.6 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Longer Query12591429

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 4 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Mistral Large 4: 60.4 (#97)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMistral Large 4
LMArena Text12621427
LMArena Creative Writing12351361
LMArena Multi-Turn12751424
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Mistral Large 4?

Mistral Large 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Mistral Large 4 better for coding?

Mistral Large 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Mistral Large 4 share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 4 has 15.

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