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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mistral NeMo

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Mistral NeMo
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025Jul 18 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Specifications
Parameters
12B
Context window
128k
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 NeMo shipped 438 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Mistral NeMo?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral NeMo don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral NeMo shipped 438 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while Mistral NeMo is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mistral NeMo 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 NeMo was released by Mistral on Jul 18 2024.

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

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