Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mistral

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 56.5 to 16.6.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Mistral
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index50.529.9
Released2025-11-01—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6922

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Coding15041162
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Mistral: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Hard Prompts14761149
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Math14631180
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—7.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Expert14871125
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Mistral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Non-English14381129
LMArena Chinese14701109
LMArena French14711180
LMArena German14491155
LMArena Japanese14161013
LMArena Korean14241032
LMArena Russian14471168
LMArena Spanish14581143

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Instruction Following14781152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Longer Query14801153
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral
LMArena Text14511165
LMArena Creative Writing14451158
LMArena Multi-Turn14661147
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
WildBench—66%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Mistral?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Mistral better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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