Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Mistral

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 22.3.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Mistral specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Mistral
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index60.729.9
Released2026-05-28—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6522

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Coding14901162
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Mistral: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Hard Prompts14821149
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Expert15021125
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Mistral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Non-English14501129
LMArena Chinese15071109
LMArena French14811180
LMArena German14721155
LMArena Japanese14401013
LMArena Korean14321032
LMArena Russian14741168
LMArena Spanish14661143

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Instruction Following14761152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Longer Query14831153

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Mistral
LMArena Text14611165
LMArena Creative Writing14541158
LMArena Multi-Turn14761147
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
WildBench—66%
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Mistral?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Mistral better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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