Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral Medium

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 42.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 81.6% for Mistral Medium.
  • Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.036.3
Released2024-02-292023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked3036

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
WeirdML10.2%43.7%
LMArena Coding12231434
FrontierCode—8%
SciCode—40.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—763.98
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts11971426
DTBench53.6%75.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%32.2%
LMArena Math12131408
MATH Level 518.2%81.6%
ProofBench—9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
GPQA Diamond40.6%59.5%
LMArena Expert11731408
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
LMArena Vision9841172

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English12051408
LMArena Chinese11891447
LMArena French12291459
LMArena German12041432
LMArena Japanese11311378
LMArena Korean11281380
LMArena Russian12271411
LMArena Spanish12041433

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following11991398

Long Context Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query12111406

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Medium
LMArena Text12181424
LMArena Creative Writing11861391
LMArena Multi-Turn12271418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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