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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral Medium

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Mistral Medium
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025Dec 2023
AccessProprietaryProprietary
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 Medium shipped 668 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Mistral Medium?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Medium don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Medium shipped 668 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 Medium 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 Medium was released by Mistral on Dec 2023.

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