Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 10.7.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1250 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1254 |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.