Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 48.2 to 16.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 75.1% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.
- Claude Sonnet 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 54.5 | 39.6 |
| Released | 2026-06-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 128K | 210K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 51 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20), Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1540 | 1263 |
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1461 |
| DeepSWE | 53.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 42.7% | — |
| CursorBench | 34.1% | — |
| SciCode | 53.6% | — |
| GSO | 37.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 68.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,463 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16), Mistral Medium 3.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 54.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1194 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,378 | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37), Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 75.1% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.34 | 141.42 |
| SimpleBench | 60.6% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| CritPt | 16.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 35% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 35% | — |
| DTBench | 92.5% | — |
| LMCA | 50% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 60% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |
Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1467 | 1432 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 65.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 77% | — |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1491 | 1431 |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% | — |
Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26), Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1275 | 1222 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1466 | — |
Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55), Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1475 | 1443 |
| LMArena French | 1457 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1448 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | 1452 | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1436 | 1406 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1453 | 1414 |
Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1464 | 1414 |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1372 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1236 | 993 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1454 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1794 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?
Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5 lists at $2 and $10.
Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.