# Claude 2.1 vs Mistral 7B

> Claude 2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 24.9 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral 7B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 2.1 leads 15.5 to 7.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 22.9 |
| Rank | 340 | 346 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322)
- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216)
- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 111.97 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309)
- Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287)
- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 15.2% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 62.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1036 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 2.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 24.9 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (25.8 vs 25.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mistral 7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.