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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Codestral Mamba 7B

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Mistral
Codestral Mamba 7B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateFeb 5 2026Jul 16 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
91.3%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.8%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapCodestral Mamba 7B shipped 569 days before Claude Opus 4.6

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.6 or Codestral Mamba 7B?

Claude Opus 4.6 leads Codestral Mamba 7B on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Codestral Mamba 7B shipped 569 days before Claude Opus 4.6, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Codestral Mamba 7B is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Opus 4.6 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 4.6 released?
Claude Opus 4.6 was released by Anthropic on Feb 5 2026.
When was Codestral Mamba 7B released?
Codestral Mamba 7B was released by Mistral on Jul 16 2024.
Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Codestral Mamba 7B open source?
Codestral Mamba 7B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Opus 4.6 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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