# Claude 2 vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium leads 28.1 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 81.6% for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 346 | 218 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 75.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1426 |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 32.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 81.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1408 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1398 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1391 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1418 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.