Claude 3 Haiku vs Mistral Large 2
Wins 2 of 6 areas
Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 3 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Facts
Mistral Large 2 wins more areas, narrowly.Claude 3 Haiku is cheaper and better at long documents.
Scores updated · 22 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software02Mistral Large 22 of 2 tests
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up02Mistral Large 22 of 2 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking01Mistral Large 21 of 3 tests · 2 ties
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude 3 Haiku1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Claude 3 Haiku1 of 1 test
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own00Even0 each · 1 tie
Agents, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Claude 3 Haiku costs 81% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Mistral Large 2 pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+12.8points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+11.2points ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+10.6points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 22 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingMistral Large 2
- SciCodeMistral Large 2 by 10.618.629.2+10.6
- Terminal-Bench HardMistral Large 2 by 5.30.86.1+5.3
ReasoningMistral Large 2
- GPQA DiamondMistral Large 2 by 11.237.448.6+11.2
- Humanity's Last Examtie4.13.3tie
- CritPttie00tie
FactsMistral Large 2
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationMistral Large 2 by 12.819.532.3+12.8
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyMistral Large 2 by 2.317.619.9+2.3
Following instructionsClaude 3 Haiku
- IFBenchClaude 3 Haiku by 4.936.131.2+4.9
Other results12 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- NarrativeQAMistral Large 2 by 53.524.477.9+53.5
- AIR-Bench 2024Claude 3 Haiku by 47.482.735.3+47.4
- naturalquestions_closedbookMistral Large 2 by 30.914.445.3+30.9
- HumanEvalMistral Large 2 by 16.175.992+16.1
- AA-OmniscienceMistral Large 2 by 14.2-48.6-34.4+14.2
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Mistral Large 2 by 9.621.130.7+9.6
- OpenBookQAMistral Large 2 by 9.483.893.2+9.4
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexMistral Large 2 by 7.16.713.8+7.1
- MMLUMistral Large 2 by 6.366.272.5+6.3
- GSM8KMistral Large 2 by 4.188.993+4.1
- AA Agentic IndexMistral Large 2 by 3.2710.2+3.2
- AA IntelligenceMistral Large 2 by 25.67.6+2
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or Mistral Large 2?
Mistral Large 2 wins three of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning and facts. Claude 3 Haiku wins long documents and following instructions, and costs 81% less. They are level on agents.
Which is better for coding?
Mistral Large 2. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Claude 3 Haiku wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Claude 3 Haiku costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 2 costs $2.00 and $6.00. That makes Claude 3 Haiku about 81% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 22 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 10 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 12 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.