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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

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Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateOct 15 2025Apr 29 2026
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
128B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
73%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
73.3%
77.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapClaude Haiku 4.5 shipped 196 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 are evenly matched across the benchmarks they both publish. Claude Haiku 4.5 shipped 196 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 Haiku 4.5 is proprietary.

On SWE-Bench Verified, Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 77.6%, 4.3 points above Claude Haiku 4.5 at 73.3%.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Haiku 4.5 released?
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
Which is better at coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
On SWE-Bench Verified (real-world software-engineering tasks), Mistral Medium 3.5 leads — Claude Haiku 4.5 scores 73.3% and Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 77.6%.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Mistral Medium 3.5 open source?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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