# Claude 2 vs Mistral 7B

> Claude 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 2 leads 16.9 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.7% for Claude 2 and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 346 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | 36% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 112.21 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 3.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 15.2% |
| MMLU | 78.5% | 62.5% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 75.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Mistral 7B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.