Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mistral Medium

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 10 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
  • Mistral Medium is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Mistral Medium specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index58.336.3
Released2026-04-142023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K262K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$25$7.50
Results tracked6636

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
FrontierCode38.5%8%
SciCode54.5%40.2%
WeirdML76.4%43.7%
LMArena Coding15181434
ALE-Bench1,323763.98
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%50%
CritPt12%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061426
DTBench94.7%75.5%
LMCA52.2%26.1%
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%32.2%
ProofBench54%9%
LMArena Math14991408
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%0.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
GPQA Diamond90.2%59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%22.7%
LMArena Expert15211408
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision13161172
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14801408
LMArena Chinese15311447
LMArena French15031459
LMArena German14951432
LMArena Japanese14721378
LMArena Korean14641380
LMArena Russian14941411
LMArena Spanish14951433

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14981398

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query15051406

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mistral Medium
LMArena Text14901424
LMArena Creative Writing14861391
LMArena Multi-Turn15051418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Mistral Medium?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Mistral Medium share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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