# Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral 7B

> Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 27

## Summary

- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 319 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 36% |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | 42.1% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1067 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 112.21 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | 75.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1036 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 62.5% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mistral 7B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Mistral 7B share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.