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Claude Opus 4.1 vs Codestral 22B

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1
Mistral
Codestral 22B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateAug 5 2025May 29 2024
AccessProprietaryProprietary
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
43%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
74.5%
Science
GPQA Diamond
80.9%
Timeline
Release gapCodestral 22B shipped 433 days before Claude Opus 4.1

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.1 or Codestral 22B?

Claude Opus 4.1 and Codestral 22B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Codestral 22B shipped 433 days before Claude Opus 4.1, 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 Opus 4.1 and Codestral 22B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.1 was released by Anthropic on Aug 5 2025.

Codestral 22B was released by Mistral on May 29 2024.

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