Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Magistral Medium
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Magistral Medium in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 19.2.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1319 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1250 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1254 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1275 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Magistral Medium?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Magistral Medium better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (39.0 vs 39.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.