# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mistral 7B

> Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Claude 3.5 Haiku leads 40.0 to 25.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 46.4% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 315 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | 27.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1067 |
| DTBench | 56.7% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 112.21 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | 3.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1036 |
| MMLU | 74.3% | 62.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1062 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mistral 7B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.