Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral Nemo

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Nemo in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Nemo leads 25.5 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Mistral Nemo specifications
Claude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.026.4
Released2024-02-292024-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked3010

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
LMArena Coding1223—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
DTBench53.6%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7118.68
LMArena Hard Prompts1197—
PIQA—83.5%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
MATH Level 518.2%10.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
LMArena Math1213—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond40.6%29.9%
LMArena Expert1173—
BoolQ—82.5%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1205—
LMArena Chinese1189—
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1211—

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1218—
LMArena Creative Writing1186—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1227—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mistral Nemo?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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