Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Codestral 25.01
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Codestral 25.01 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Release date | Jun 20 2024 | Jan 13 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Specifications | ||
Context window | — | 256k |
| 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. | 45% | — |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33.4% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 59.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3.5 Sonnet shipped 207 days before Codestral 25.01 | |
Which is better: Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Codestral 25.01?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Codestral 25.01 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3.5 Sonnet shipped 207 days before Codestral 25.01, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Codestral 25.01 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released by Anthropic on Jun 20 2024.
Codestral 25.01 was released by Mistral on Jan 13 2025.
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