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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral Large 2

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Mistral Large 2
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025Jul 24 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
79%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
50%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapMistral Large 2 shipped 432 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Mistral Large 2?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Large 2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Large 2 shipped 432 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while Mistral Large 2 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Large 2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.

Mistral Large 2 was released by Mistral on Jul 24 2024.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Mistral Large 2 is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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