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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Pixtral 24.09

3 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Mistral
Pixtral 24.09
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateSep 29 2025Sep 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapPixtral 24.09 shipped 393 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Pixtral 24.09?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads Pixtral 24.09 on 3 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Pixtral 24.09 shipped 393 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Pixtral 24.09 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Sonnet 4.5 released?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.
When was Pixtral 24.09 released?
Pixtral 24.09 was released by Mistral on Sep 2024.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Pixtral 24.09 open source?
Pixtral 24.09 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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