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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Pixtral 24.09

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
Mistral
Pixtral 24.09
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 24 2025Sep 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapPixtral 24.09 shipped 449 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or Pixtral 24.09?

Claude Opus 4.5 leads Pixtral 24.09 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Pixtral 24.09 shipped 449 days before Claude Opus 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Pixtral 24.09 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary.

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 Pixtral 24.09 released?
Pixtral 24.09 was released by Mistral on Sep 2024.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Pixtral 24.09 open source?
Pixtral 24.09 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Opus 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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