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AnthropicMistral AILLM matchup

Claude Haiku 5.5vs.Mistral Large 3

Which one is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 performs better than Mistral Large 3 and is cheaper: Mistral Large 3 costs 5 times (input) and 3 times (output) as much.

Haiku 5.5 ahead
IntelligenceOverall index, 100 points = average
103.4

Claude Haiku 5.5

Rank 20

38.9

Mistral Large 3

Rank 91

Haiku 5.5 faster
SpeedTokens per second
236

Claude Haiku 5.5

78

Mistral Large 3

Haiku 5.5 cheaper
Price$ per 1M tokens
$0.20

Claude Haiku 5.5

$0.75

Mistral Large 3

Haiku 5.5 more popular
Popularity0 to 100
77

Claude Haiku 5.5

Rank 3 of 875

32

Mistral Large 3

Rank 415 of 875

Above 100,000 tokens of context, Claude Haiku 5.5 costs more: $0.50 input and $2.50 output per 1M tokens.

Choose Claude Haiku 5.5 for

MathematicsHealthCodingAgentsReasoningGeneralFinanceLegalKnowledge

Choose Mistral Large 3 for

No clear advantage

Where is the difference?

Strengths at a glance

Haiku 5.5Mistral Large 3

The median of all ranked models is below 100 in every area, so it sits in the centre of the net.

105110100CodingHaiku 5.5ReasoningHaiku 5.5MathematicsHaiku 5.5KnowledgeHaiku 5.5AgentsHaiku 5.5GeneralHaiku 5.5FinanceHaiku 5.5LegalHaiku 5.5HealthHaiku 5.5
CodingHaiku 5.5 ahead
Haiku 5.5106.2Rank 18
Mistral Large 338.4Rank 105
Median of ranked models83.7

95 % range: Haiku 5.5 102.5 to 109.9, Mistral Large 3 29.1 to 47.7.

AreaHaiku 5.5Mistral Large 3

The same values and verdicts as the bars below. In the top field the net starts at 100 points, the reference group average; values below sit as a hollow point in the centre. Not in the net because a model has no own value there or the data are too thin: Multimodal.

Haiku 5.5 is ahead in 9 of 10 areas, Mistral Large 3 in none.

Haiku 5.5 ahead: 9too little data: 1

Areas in the overall index
MathematicsHaiku 5.5 +74107.1 to 33.0
CodingHaiku 5.5 +68106.2 to 38.4
AgentsHaiku 5.5 +64106.1 to 41.7
ReasoningHaiku 5.5 +64105.2 to 41.4
GeneralHaiku 5.5 +63106.4 to 42.9
KnowledgeHaiku 5.5 +4285.5 to 43.8
Multimodalonly Mistral Large 3 has a score
Specialist fields
HealthHaiku 5.5 +70108.9 to 39.4
FinanceHaiku 5.5 +59104.7 to 45.8
LegalHaiku 5.5 +5094.4 to 44.6

Bar length shows the gap in index points (full width 15 points, one standard deviation of the reference group). Solid means clearly ahead, hatched not certain yet, a thin grey bar level.

Show 3 more areas that do not count toward the overall index
Cybersecurityonly Haiku 5.5 has a score
Productivityonly Haiku 5.5 has a score
Educationonly Haiku 5.5 has a score

Bar length shows the gap in index points (full width 15 points, one standard deviation of the reference group). Solid means clearly ahead, hatched not certain yet, a thin grey bar level.

Which model for which task?

Everyday tasks, translated from the area values above. Each row names the values it rests on.

Writing and debugging codeHaiku 5.5Coding 106.2 to 38.4
Maths and data analysisHaiku 5.5Mathematics 107.1 to 33.0, Reasoning 105.2 to 41.4
Facts and researchHaiku 5.5Knowledge 85.5 to 43.8
Agents and workflowsHaiku 5.5Agents 106.1 to 41.7
Fast chat repliesHaiku 5.5236 to 78 tokens per second
Security analysisopenCybersecurity without a score for Mistral Large 3
Many requests on a small budgetHaiku 5.5$0.20 to $0.75 per 1M tokens
Finance, legal and medical textsHaiku 5.5Finance 104.7 to 45.8, Legal 94.4 to 44.6, Health 108.9 to 39.4
Images, screenshots and PDFsopenMultimodal without a score for Haiku 5.5

See for yourself: same task, one attempt

SVG short test

One SVG task with the same fixed settings for every model, without hidden thinking.

Prompt

Return only one standalone SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. Use viewBox="0 0 800 600", simple shapes, two clearly visible wheels and a recognizable pelican with a long beak. At most 30 SVG elements and 1800 characters. No Markdown, explanations, comments, scripts, animation, CSS or external resources.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Unavailable in this round

Mistral Large 3

API request failed. The model was not evaluated.

Earlier tests

Pelican on a bicycle

Prompt

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Task origin: Simon Willison

Claude Haiku 5.5

Not tested yet

Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3: Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

Oct 1, 2026 · 14 s · $0.0022

Test details
Run date
Oct 1, 2026
API provider
openrouter
Requested API model
mistralai/mistral-large-2512
Reasoning setting
not specified
Token limit including reasoning
8,192 tokens
Output tokens
1,451 tokens
Cost of the attempt
$0.0022
Response time
14.2 s
API model reported in response
mistralai/mistral-large-2512
Pinned endpoint
Mistral | mistralai/mistral-large-2512
Temperature
Provider default
Test protocol
community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks
Passed, not a quality rating
Reasoning (model default)
no reasoning mode Source

Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.

Earlier attempts (1)

  • Sep 7, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: not specified

Claude Haiku 5.5 and Mistral Large 3 in the overall index

Every model with a place in the overall index, both models of this matchup highlighted. You can add or hide other models.

Overall index (Gradually Meta-Score v4)

20 of 91 models

5 models in this view are measured at a lower reasoning effort than max in the overall index. Dashed column: lower reasoning effort than the top.

Claude Opus 5.5max126.1
Gemini 4 Carbonhigh125.7
Claude Fable 5.1max123.8
Claude Sonnet 5.5max122.8
Gemini 4 Argonhigh122.3
GPT-6 Astramax121.3
GPT-6.1 Solmax119.2
Muse Wonder Fullmax118.3
Claude Opus 5max117.2
Muse Wondermax113.4
Kimi K3.1 Promax112.9
Claude Fable 5max112.5
GPT-6 Solmax110.6
GPT-5.6 Solmax108.7
Muse Spark 1.3max107.4
Gemini 3.7 Flashhigh107.1
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max106.6
Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh106.5
Claude Haiku 5.5max103.4
Mistral Large 3none38.9

Popularity compared

How often the models are searched for, used and mentioned, on a scale from 0 to 100.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is more popular than Mistral Large 3: 77 to 32 out of 100.

Over time

Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 5, 2026

Claude Haiku 5.5Mistral Large 3

All data side by side

The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.

MetricClaude Haiku 5.5Mistral Large 3
Intelligence
Overall indexpoints, 100 = reference group average, higher is better103.438.9
RankRank 20 of 91Rank 91 of 91
Price per 1M tokens
Inputwhat you send$0.10above 100,000 tokens: $0.50$0.50
Outputwhat the model writes$0.50above 100,000 tokens: $2.50$1.50
Speed
Tokens per second23678
Popularity
Popularitysearch, usage and mentions, 0 to 10077Rank 3 of 87532Rank 415 of 875
Technical
Context windowhow much text the model reads at once1 M tokens≈ 1,500 A4 pages262,144 tokens≈ 390 A4 pages
Knowledge cutoffJune 2026n/a
ReleasedOct 7, 2026Dec 2, 2025
AvailabilityActiveActive
Open weightsnoyes

Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis

Is there a better choice?

Cheaper than Haiku 5.5MiMo V2.6 Flash

Overall index 98.3, rank 31. $0.14 input and $0.28 output per 1M tokens.

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Best model in the overall indexClaude Opus 5.5

Overall index 126.1, rank 1. $4 input and $20 output per 1M tokens.

Haiku 5.5 vs. Claude Opus 5.5

Shared benchmarks

Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.

A: Claude Haiku 5.5B: Mistral Large 3

LMArena Code Arena WebDevOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,589Mistral Large 3: 1,233LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,425Mistral Large 3: 1,414LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevHTML development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,568Mistral Large 3: 1,241LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlBusiness, management and finance · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,435Mistral Large 3: 1,410LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevWeb development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,589Mistral Large 3: 1,233LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlChinese · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,468Mistral Large 3: 1,432LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlCoding · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,489Mistral Large 3: 1,471LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlCreative writing · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,361Mistral Large 3: 1,375LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlEnglish · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,438Mistral Large 3: 1,427LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlEntertainment, sports and media · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,378Mistral Large 3: 1,373LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
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LMArena Text, Style ControlExcluding ties · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,417Mistral Large 3: 1,402LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlExpert prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,479Mistral Large 3: 1,428LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlFrench prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,457Mistral Large 3: 1,432LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlHard prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,452Mistral Large 3: 1,433LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlHard prompts, English · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,460Mistral Large 3: 1,440LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlInstruction following · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,429Mistral Large 3: 1,403LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlLegal and government · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,413Mistral Large 3: 1,422LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlLife, physical and social science · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,444Mistral Large 3: 1,429LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlLonger queries · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,424Mistral Large 3: 1,418LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMath · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,449Mistral Large 3: 1,401LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMathematical professions · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,452Mistral Large 3: 1,414LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMedicine and healthcare · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,412Mistral Large 3: 1,431LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlMulti-turn · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,422Mistral Large 3: 1,420LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlNon-English · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,409Mistral Large 3: 1,398LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlRussian prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,394Mistral Large 3: 1,407LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlSoftware and IT services · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,481Mistral Large 3: 1,456LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlSpanish prompts · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,404Mistral Large 3: 1,408LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026
LMArena Text, Style ControlWriting, literature and language · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalClaude Haiku 5.5: 1,390Mistral Large 3: 1,390LMArenaAs of 10/28/2026

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