Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Mistral Small
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mistral Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Release date | Jun 20 2024 | Feb 26 2024 |
| 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 Small shipped 115 days before Claude 3.5 Sonnet | |
Which is better: Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Mistral Small?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mistral Small don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Small shipped 115 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 Small 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 Small was released by Mistral on Feb 26 2024.
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