Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Mistral

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 42.0 to 16.6.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Mistral specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Mistral
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index41.029.9
Released2025-08-05—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4822

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Coding14791162
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Mistral: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Hard Prompts14431149
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Math14311180
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
Omni-MATH—7.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Expert14391125
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Mistral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Non-English14051129
LMArena Chinese14271109
LMArena French14311180
LMArena German14131155
LMArena Japanese13781013
LMArena Korean13801032
LMArena Russian14221168
LMArena Spanish14481143

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Instruction Following14351152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Longer Query14551153

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Mistral
LMArena Text14191165
LMArena Creative Writing14121158
LMArena Multi-Turn14441147
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
WildBench—66%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Mistral?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Mistral better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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