Claude 3 Haiku vs Devstral Small 2 (24B)
Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku | Mistral Devstral Small 2 (24B) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Dec 9 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 10% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 33.3% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3 Haiku shipped 645 days before Devstral Small 2 (24B) | |
Which is better: Claude 3 Haiku or Devstral Small 2 (24B)?
Claude 3 Haiku and Devstral Small 2 (24B) don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3 Haiku shipped 645 days before Devstral Small 2 (24B), so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude 3 Haiku is proprietary, while Devstral Small 2 (24B) is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Haiku and Devstral Small 2 (24B) don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
Devstral Small 2 (24B) was released by Mistral on Dec 9 2025.
Claude 3 Haiku is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Devstral Small 2 (24B) is an open weight model released by Mistral.
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