Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Mistral Medium
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Release date | Jun 20 2024 | Dec 2023 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| 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 | Mistral Medium shipped 202 days before Claude 3.5 Sonnet | |
Which is better: Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Mistral Medium?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Medium don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Medium shipped 202 days before Claude 3.5 Sonnet, 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 Mistral Medium 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.
Mistral Medium was released by Mistral on Dec 2023.
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