Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 41.8 to 16.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 84.3% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 27.7% for Mistral.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1162 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1149 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| DTBench | 77.1% | — |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | — |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |
Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1350 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1363 | 1180 |
| LMArena German | 1331 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1302 | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | 1291 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1357 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84% | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1376 | 1152 |
Long Context Mistral leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1153 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1158 |
| WildBench | 83.8% | 66% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 1147 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Mistral?
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Mistral better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Mistral share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.