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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 15 shared benchmark results across 6 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

63.37/100
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0 category wins1 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.5 #39 (Supported); Mistral Medium 3.5 128B unranked (Not scored). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B share 15 comparable benchmark results. 1 of 8 categories are comparable. 44 results are unique to Claude Opus 4.5; 10 to Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.

Updated July 27, 2026
Shared results
15
Claude Opus 4.5 only
44
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only
10
Comparable categories
1 / 8

Treat this as a split decision. Claude Opus 4.5 makes more sense if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model; Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is the better fit if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 15 shared benchmark results across 6 evidence categories; 1 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B finish on the same BenchAlign overall score, so this is less about a single winner and more about where the edge shows up. The BenchAlign headline says tie; the benchmark table is where the real choice happens.

Claude Opus 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B. That is roughly 3.3x on output cost alone. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
CategoryClaude Opus 4.5ΔMistral Medium 3.5 128B
CodingClaude Opus 4.571.7Margin 5.9Mistral Medium 3.5 128B77.6
AgenticClaude Opus 4.562.6MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
ReasoningClaude Opus 4.564.4MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.558.1MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
MathClaude Opus 4.557.5MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
MultilingualClaude Opus 4.585.7MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
MultimodalClaude Opus 4.569.9MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
Inst. FollowingClaude Opus 4.569.5MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured

Decisive benchmark drivers

The largest measured benchmark gaps in this matchup, with exact reported values.

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A · Claude Opus 4.5B · Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
  1. SWE-bench Verified

    Coding
    Source ↗
    A 80.9%B 77.6%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.5Δ 3.3
    SWE-bench Verified: Claude Opus 4.5 scored 80.9%; Mistral Medium 3.5 128B scored 77.6%. Claude Opus 4.5 wins this benchmark.

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude Opus 4.5$5 input / $25 outputMistral Medium 3.5 128B$1.5 input / $7.5 outputMistral Medium 3.5 128B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude Opus 4.546 tok/sMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude Opus 4.51.01 sMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude Opus 4.5200KMistral Medium 3.5 128B256KMistral Medium 3.5 128B lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 59.3%Not comparable
OSWorld-VerifiedSource 66.3%Not comparable
OSWorldSource 66.3%Not comparable
Claw-EvalSource 59.6%Not comparable
QwenClawBenchSource 52.3%Not comparable
τ³-bench resultsSource 70.2%91.4%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
VITA-BenchSource 23.3%Not comparable
DeepPlanningSource 26.4%Not comparable
ToolathlonSource 43.5%Not comparable
MCP AtlasSource 42.3%Not comparable
MCP-TasksSource 71.8%Not comparable
WideResearchSource 76.4%Not comparable
CyberGymSource 50.6%Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 86.3%94.2%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
Gert LabsSource 64.23%39.10%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
JobBenchSource 32.3%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 19.0%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 21.6%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 933Not comparable
AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource 33.7%Not comparable
AA Harvey LABSource 69.1%Not comparable
terminalBenchHardSource 33.3%Not comparable
AA BriefcaseSource 516Not comparable
AA Tau3 BankingSource 14.4%Not comparable
CodingMistral Medium 3.5 128B wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 80.9%77.6%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
LiveCodeBench v6Source 84.8%Not comparable
SWE-bench ProSource 57.1%Not comparable
SWE MultilingualSource 77.5%Not comparable
NL2RepoSource 43.2%Not comparable
AA-SciCodeSource 47.0%39.6%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA Coding IndexSource 46.9%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
LongBench v2Source 64.4%Not comparable
AI-NeedleSource 74%Not comparable
AA-LCRSource 65.3%61.0%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
CritPtSource 0.3%0.0%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Knowledge
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
GPQASource 87%Not comparable
SuperGPQASource 70.6%Not comparable
MMLU-ProSource 89.5%Not comparable
MMLU-ReduxSource 96.6%Not comparable
C-EvalSource 92.2%Not comparable
HLESource 30.8%Not comparable
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 34.7%29.9%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 81.0%74.8%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-HLESource 12.9%12.8%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -3.9%-36.3%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 40.7%25.1%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 75.4%82.0%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA MMLU-ProSource 88.9%Not comparable
AA Openness IndexSource 33.3%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
AIME26Source 95.1%Not comparable
HMMT Feb 2025Source 92.9%Not comparable
HMMT Nov 2025Source 93.3%Not comparable
HMMT Feb 2026Source 85.3%Not comparable
MMAnswerBenchSource 84.0%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 20.690%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Source 4.167%Not comparable
Multilingual
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
MMLU-ProXSource 85.7%Not comparable
NOVA-63Source 56.7%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
MMMU-ProSource 70.6%Not comparable
MathVisionSource 74.3%Not comparable
CharXivSource 68.5%Not comparable
VideoMMMUSource 84.4%Not comparable
ScreenSpot ProSource 45.7%Not comparable
V*Source 67.0%Not comparable
AA-MMMU-ProSource 71.2%64.9%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1272Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
IFEvalSource 90.9%Not comparable
IFBenchSource 58%Not comparable
AA-IFBenchSource 43.0%68.8%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Claude Opus 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B are tied on the BenchAlign overall score, so the right pick depends on which category matters most for your use case.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.5 or Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.6 versus 71.7. Inside this category, AA-SciCode is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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Last updated: July 27, 2026

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