Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Mistral 7B
Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 13.1.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 36% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 112.21 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 54.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 78.6% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 62.5% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 75.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Mistral 7B?
Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Mistral 7B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.