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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Mixtral 8×22B

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Mixtral 8×22B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025Apr 10 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 gapMixtral 8×22B shipped 537 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Mixtral 8×22B?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mixtral 8×22B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mixtral 8×22B shipped 537 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while Mixtral 8×22B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Mixtral 8×22B 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.

Mixtral 8×22B was released by Mistral on Apr 10 2024.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Mixtral 8×22B is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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