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Claude 3 Haiku vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku
Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateMar 4 2024Apr 29 2026
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Specifications
Parameters
128B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
10%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.6%
Science
GPQA Diamond
33.3%
Timeline
Release gapClaude 3 Haiku shipped 786 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Claude 3 Haiku or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Claude 3 Haiku and Mistral Medium 3.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3 Haiku shipped 786 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude 3 Haiku is proprietary, while Mistral Medium 3.5 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Haiku and Mistral Medium 3.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude 3 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.

Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.

Claude 3 Haiku is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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