# Claude 3 Haiku vs Mistral

> Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-haiku-vs-mistral
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral leads 20.5 to 9.2.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.7 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 333 | 297 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Haiku: 26.1 (#320)
- Mistral: 33.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1162 |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Haiku: 15.7 (#303)
- Mistral: 21.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1149 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.3 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Haiku: 9.2 (#313)
- Mistral: 20.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#280)
- Mistral: 16.3 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Haiku: 23.1 (#123)
- Mistral: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#238)
- Mistral: 33.0 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1194 | 1179 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 1012 |
| LMArena Korean | 1108 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1165 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Haiku: 61.5 (#242)
- Mistral: 52.9 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#232)
- Mistral: 35.0 (#240)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | 1154 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Haiku: 29.8 (#286)
- Mistral: 37.2 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1147 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
| WildBench | — | 66% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Mistral?

Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Haiku or Mistral better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.