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Claude 2.1 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

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Anthropic
Claude 2.1
Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 21 2023Apr 29 2026
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
128B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapClaude 2.1 shipped 890 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Claude 2.1 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Claude 2.1 on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Claude 2.1 shipped 890 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 2.1 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude 2.1 released?
Claude 2.1 was released by Anthropic on Nov 21 2023.
When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
Is Claude 2.1 or Mistral Medium 3.5 open source?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude 2.1 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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