Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Magistral Small
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Small leads 26.2 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 30% for Magistral Small.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 53.6% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Magistral Small leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 30% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Magistral Small?
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Magistral Small share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.