Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Codestral
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Codestral in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- Codestral has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Codestral: 26.9 (#316)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 41.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 52.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 73.8% |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | 61.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 11.1% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Codestral: 19.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena French | 1228 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Codestral?
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Codestral better for coding?
Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 26.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Codestral share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.