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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Mistral Medium 3
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025May 7 2025
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 3 shipped 145 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Mistral Medium 3?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Medium 3 shipped 145 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 3 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 3 was released by Mistral on May 7 2025.

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