# Claude 2.1 vs Mistral Large

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.1 to 15.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 51.3% for Mistral Large.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 345 | 263 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1277 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 65.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 57.1 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1262 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 51.3% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 80% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1232 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1325 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1249 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1243 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1260 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Mistral Large better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mistral Large share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.