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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Codestral 22B

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
Mistral
Codestral 22B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 24 2025May 29 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapCodestral 22B shipped 544 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or Codestral 22B?

Claude Opus 4.5 leads Codestral 22B on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Codestral 22B shipped 544 days before Claude Opus 4.5, 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 — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Opus 4.5 released?
Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.
When was Codestral 22B released?
Codestral 22B was released by Mistral on May 29 2024.

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