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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Magistral Small

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
Mistral
Magistral Small
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 24 2025Jun 10 2025
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 gapMagistral Small shipped 167 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or Magistral Small?

Claude Opus 4.5 leads Magistral Small on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Magistral Small shipped 167 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 Magistral Small released?
Magistral Small was released by Mistral on Jun 10 2025.

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