Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 38.7 to 10.7.
  • Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.039.1
Released2024-02-292025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.75
Results tracked3024

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Coding12231448
LMArena WebDev—1230
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Hard Prompts11971429
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—7.5%
Thematic Generalization—23%
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Math12131414
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Expert11731421
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.5%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision9841221

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English12051413
LMArena Chinese11891447
LMArena French12291455
LMArena German12041437
LMArena Japanese11311394
LMArena Korean11281384
LMArena Russian12271411
LMArena Spanish12041440

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following11991403

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query12111413

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Large 3
LMArena Text12181428
LMArena Creative Writing11861386
LMArena Multi-Turn12271429
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1412

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Mistral Large 3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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