# Claude 2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 36.4 to 8.7.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 342 | 151 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1461 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | 141.42 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1436 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1432 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1431 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1443 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1406 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1414 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1414 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1372 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1423 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.