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Claude Instant 1.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

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Anthropic
Claude Instant 1.2
Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateAug 9 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 Instant 1.2 shipped 994 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Claude Instant 1.2 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Claude Instant 1.2 on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 994 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 Instant 1.2 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 Instant 1.2 released?
Claude Instant 1.2 was released by Anthropic on Aug 9 2023.
When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
Is Claude Instant 1.2 or Mistral Medium 3.5 open source?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Instant 1.2 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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