# Claude Instant vs Codestral

> Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-codestral
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Codestral in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 30.6 |
| Rank | — | 290 |
| Context | — | 256K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.90 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Codestral: 27.3 (#321)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 73.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 11.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 41.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.9% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Codestral: 19.8 (#251)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Codestral: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Codestral: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Codestral?

Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Codestral share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.