Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral 7B

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet 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 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.023.0
Released2024-02-292023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked3037

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%19.5%
LMArena Coding12231082
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%27.3%
HumanEval+64%36%
MBPP+69.3%42.1%
WeirdML10.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971067
DTBench53.6%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7112.21
WinoGrande75.1%75.3%
Chess Puzzles—0%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%

Math Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%0.3%
LMArena Math12131085
MATH Level 518.2%3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond40.6%15.2%
LMArena Expert11731036
MMLU75.9%62.5%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English12051012
LMArena Chinese11891009
LMArena French12291037
LMArena German1204987
LMArena Japanese1131878
LMArena Russian12271018
LMArena Spanish12041026
LMArena Korean1128—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following11991060

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query12111060

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral 7B
LMArena Text12181090
LMArena Creative Writing11861068
LMArena Multi-Turn12271062

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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