Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Codestral

Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Codestral in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3.5 Haiku leads 32.9 to 27.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 28% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 11.1% for Codestral.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Codestral specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.230.6
Released2024-10-222024-05-29
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—256K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$0.90
Results tracked497

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
Aider Polyglot28%11.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%41.8%
BigCodeBench Complete59%52.5%
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1286—
CadEval32%—
ALE-Bench—137.78
HumanEval+—73.8%
MBPP+—61.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Codestral: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Codestral leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
Kagi LLM Benchmark—32.5%
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Codestral: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
LMArena Math1244—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Codestral: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
GPQA Diamond38.1%—
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
LMArena Expert1208—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Codestral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Codestral: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
LMArena Non-English1238—
LMArena Chinese1229—
LMArena French1264—
LMArena German1237—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1173—
LMArena Russian1253—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Codestral: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Codestral: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
LMArena Longer Query1261—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Codestral: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuCodestral
LMArena Text1255—
LMArena Creative Writing1233—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1265—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Codestral?

Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Codestral better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Codestral share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.

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