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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral Large

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral Mistral Large — side-by-side specs.

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Mistral Large
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025Feb 26 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapMistral Large shipped 581 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Mistral Large?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Large don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Large shipped 581 days before Claude Sonnet 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 — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Large don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Sonnet 4.5 released?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.
When was Mistral Large released?
Mistral Large was released by Mistral on Feb 26 2024.

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