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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mistral NeMo

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
Mistral
Mistral NeMo
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 24 2025Jul 18 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Specifications
Parameters
12B
Context window
128k
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
90%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Science
GPQA Diamond
87%
Timeline
Release gapMistral NeMo shipped 494 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or Mistral NeMo?

Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral NeMo don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral NeMo shipped 494 days before Claude Opus 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary, while Mistral NeMo is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral NeMo don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.

Mistral NeMo was released by Mistral on Jul 18 2024.

Claude Opus 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Mistral NeMo is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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