Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Codestral
Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Codestral in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Codestral: 27.3 (#321)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 73.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 11.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 41.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.9% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 19.6, Codestral: 19.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Codestral?
Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Codestral share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.